"A method of procuring sensations? Do you..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
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More on Crime
“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”
“The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.”
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.”
More on Pleasure
“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.”
“If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.”
“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”