Dorian Quotes

32 quotes by 11 authors

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. — Rosamund Lupton
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of… — Plato
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities — Chinua Achebe
The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. — Walton Goggins
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?… — Oscar Wilde
Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds. — Richelle Mead
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You… — Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat… — Oscar Wilde
Well, I canâ€™t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when… — Oscar Wilde
You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I… — Richelle Mead
Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it. — Nalini Singh
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In… — Oscar Wilde
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I… — Richelle Mead
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they… — Oscar Wilde
You can run,â€ Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, â€œbut sooner or later, you run… — Nalini Singh
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make… — Oscar Wilde
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and… — Oscar Wilde
Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them. — Richelle Mead
Nothing happened here, okay? None of this did.â€ His eyebrows rose. â€œReally? Because I could have sworn that something happened when my hand was between… — Richelle Mead

Who Wrote These Dorian Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 32 Dorian Quotes as follows: