Some of my favourite quotes from the author of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”:

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

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

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”