Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul."
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"Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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, 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
"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
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