“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
“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
“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
“Nicioadata nu aprob sau dezaprob un lucru, e o atitudine absurda fata de viata. Nu suntem trimisi in lume ca sa ne… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained… — 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
“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
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Eighteen years," laughed Dorian Gray, with a touch of triumph in his voice. "Eighteen years! Set me under the lamp and look… — 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 did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
