The Picture Of Dorian Gray Quotes

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

~ Oscar Wilde

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

~ Oscar Wilde

A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written by the Devil himself:The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

~ Syrie James

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

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

~ Oscar Wilde

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

~ Oscar Wilde

You told me you had destroyed it.I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

~ Oscar Wilde

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

~ Oscar Wilde

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

~ Oscar Wilde

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

~ Oscar Wilde

He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

~ Oscar Wilde

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

~ Oscar Wilde