The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: 'Dracula,' 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Time Machine,' not to mention… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
“Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit quietly and gape at the play.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How English you are, Basil! If one puts forward an idea to a real Englishman,— always a rash thing to do,—he never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He was conscious—and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes—that it was through certain words of his,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The coexistence of these two sharply contrasting personalities within the same individual is as apparent in literature as in life: Dorian Gray,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“him. There was a horrible fascination in them all. He saw them at night, and they troubled his imagination in the day.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep. But here was a visible symbol of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
