Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
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"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
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
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!"
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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