“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
“that. As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me. You can’t feel what I feel. You change” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the… — Oscar Wilde 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
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — 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 worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions… — 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
“As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think. Certainly few people had ever interested him… — 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
