“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”

“Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed...This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”

“Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: "This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh.”