The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

"I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him."

James Vane

"I shall show you my soul. You shall see the thing in the that you fancy only God can see."

Dorian Gray

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."

Lord Henry

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good but it is better to be good than ugly."

Lord Henry

"Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us."

Lord Henry

"An artist should create beautiful things but should put nothing of how own life into them."

Basil

"The work I have done, since I met (him), is good work, is the best work of my life."

Basil

"How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young."

Dorian Gray

"You have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done."

Basil

"Youth is the only thing worth having."

Dorian Gray

"You are certainly my best friend. No one has ever understood me as you have."

Dorian Gray

"Yet you poisoned me once. I should not forgive that"

Dorian Gray

"Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes."

Lord Henry

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."

Lord Henry

"You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose."

Basil

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield it."

Lord Henry

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Lord Henry

"To define is to limit."

Lord Henry

"Each of us has heaven and hell in them."

Dorian Gray

"The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows and thought them real."

Sibyl Vane

"I wonder do I know you? Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul."

Basil

"It is never too late...Let us kneel down and try if we cannot to remember a prayer."

Basil

"You would sacrifice anybody for the sake of an epigram."

Dorian Gray

"His beauty had been to him a mask, his youth but a mockery."

Narrator

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

Lord Henry

"I have put too much of myself into it."

Basil

"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose...(his own soul)?"

Lord Henry

"You are mad, I tell you- mad to imagine that I would raise a finger to help you, mad to make the monstrous confession."

Alan Campbell

"Everybody I know says you are very wicked."

Old Lady Narborough

"Life is a great disappointment."

Dorian Gray

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

Dorian Gray

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

Lord Henry

"You talk as if you had no hearts, no pity in you."

Basil

"Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act."

Lord Henry

"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."

Lord Henry

"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world."

Basil

"Ah! I wish you would fall in love. Love makes people good, and what you said was wicked."

Sibyl

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Lord Henry

"We have each of us a secret. Let me know yours, and I shall tell you mine."

Dorian Gray

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

Lord Henry

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."

Lord Henry

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

Lord Henry

"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us."

Basil

"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves"

Lord Henry