Lord Henry Wotton

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing."

"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

"Music acts as a sort of mathematics for the soul."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral."

"Beauty is a form of genius."

"To define is to limit."

"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself."

"Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act."

"The only tragedy in life is to get what you want."

"Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval."

"All men are bad in the same way, and all the worse for that."

"The thing one most wants to do is the very thing that is probably wrong."

"Passion makes one think in circles."

"Why is it that a man who knows everything is bored."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful."

"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis fail."

"The only immorality is not to do what one likes."

"My father never read a book."