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, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You told me you had destroyed it."

"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I shall write it in my diary to-night.’
‘What?’
‘That a burnt child loves the fire.’
‘I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.’
‘You use them for everything, except flight.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another
manner or a new material his impression of
beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism
is a mode of autobiography.
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.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written.
That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of
Realism is the rage of Caliban
seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of
Romanticism is the rage of Caliban
not seeing his own face in a glass.
The moral life of man forms part of the
subject-matter of the artist, but the morality
of art consists in the perfect use of an im-
perfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even
things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An
ethical sympathy in an artist is an un-
pardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist
can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist
instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials
for an art.

From the point of view of form, the type of all
the arts is the art of the musician. From the
point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the
Type.

All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at
their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at
their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really
Mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art
shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord
with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful
thing as long as he does not admire it. The
only excuse for making a useless thing is that
one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde., The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil,' cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life...”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
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― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Wywierać na kogoś wpływ znaczy to samo, co obdarzać go swoją duszą. Człowiek taki nie posiada już wówczas własnych myśli. Nie pożerają go własne namiętności. Cnoty jego ni należą już do niego. Nawet jego grzechy, jeśli w ogóle grzechy istnieją, są zapożyczone od kogoś innego. Staje się on echem cudzej melodii, aktorem roli nie dla niego napisanej.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nie­wie­lu jest po­śród nas ta­kich, któ­rzy otrzą­sa­li się o świ­cie czy to po jed­nej z tych bez­sen­nych nocy, kiedy nie­omal ma­rzy­my o śmier­ci, czy też po nocy peł­nej hor­ro­rów i upior­nych ra­do­ści, kiedy przez kom­na­ty umy­słu prze­cią­ga­ły zjawy strasz­liw­sze niż sama rze­czy­wi­stość.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Były w nim pasje, które po­szu­ku­ją dla sie­bie strasz­li­we­go uj­ścia, sny, które uczy­nią re­al­ny­mi cie­nie swego zła.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“La única manera de librarnos de una tentación es rendirnos a ella.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“La única forma de librarse de una tentación es ceder ante ella.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We live in a world when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The photo already had its hooks in me.”
― Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

“I can sympathize with everything except suffering", said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot symphatize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don’t think.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare to realize.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Ugliness that had once been hateful to him because it made things real, became dear to him now for that very reason.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A fit of passionate sobbing choked her. She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiseled lips curled in exquisite disdain. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic, her tears and sobs annoyed him.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower t put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a sumer's day"

"Days in summer, Baisl. are apt to linger,”
― Oscar Wilde