Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” Quotes (161 Quotes)
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- As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Eu adoro prazeres triviais. São o último refúgio do complexo.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose!...Hedonism... was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is but itself a moment.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- Even things that are true can be proved.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
- It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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