But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas