The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890) Quotes
Quote 1: “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Quote 2: “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
Quote 3: “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
Quote 4: “To define is to limit.”
Quote 5: “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Quote 6: “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Quote 7: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Quote 8: “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Quote 9: “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Quote 10: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Quote 11: “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
Quote 12: “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Quote 13: “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
Quote 14: “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Quote 15: “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Quote 16: “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Quote 17: “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Watch The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890) summary in the linked video
Category: Psychological, Supernatural Genre: 19th Century, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, LGBT, Literature
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