Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Quotes

• “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find bea...”
• “There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not thi...”
• “You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no ef...”
• “She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love ...”
• “So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-...”
• “But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our sense...”
• “It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's b...”
• “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one n...”
• “But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential ...”
• “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what th...”
• “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History wou...”
• “When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to...”
• “We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as...”
• “The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is shee...”
• “Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything e...”
• “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
• “You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
• “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
• “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
• “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
• “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
• “I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
• “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
• “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
• “You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
• “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
• “Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.”
• “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
• “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
• “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
• “The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”
• “Even things that are true can be proved.”
• “What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
• “To define is to limit.”