Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.