Oscar and Alfred - "Feasting with Panthers"
"People thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at dinner the evil
things of life, and to have found pleasure in their company. But they, from
the point of view through which I, as an artist in life, approached them,
were delightfully suggestive and stimulating. It was like feasting with
panthers. The danger was half the excitement." - De Profundis (1897).