“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” — Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” — Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” — Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.” — William Shakespeare · Sonnet 116, c. 1609