“Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”

“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”