Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” Quotes (161 Quotes)
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- But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- What fire does not destroy, it hardens
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Man is many things, but he is not rational.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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