There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar WildeNowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oscar WildePoets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.
Oscar Wilde