The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 20. Filled with regrets and now hating his youth and beauty, Dorian recalls these idolatrous words at the end of a "mad" letter from someone who once "terribly" loved him and admired his beauty. He keeps repeating them over and over to himself, before smashing the curved mirror Lord Henry gave him years ago.