Alfred Douglas

“All my life I have been the victim of a terrible persecution.”

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.”

“I am the love that dare not speak its name.”

“Wilde's downfall was not his perversion, but his vanity.”

“The sin of the world is mediocrity. The saints are the men who have raised themselves above it.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to feel, that it is blown into a flame by every wind.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”