The Picture of Doran Gray Quotes

“Must have been like eternity, with time thrown in”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Les bonnes influences n'existent pas, monsieur. [...] Parce que influencer une personne, c'est lui imposer son âme.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“That a burnt child loves the fire.'

'I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Książka nie może być moralna albo niemoralna. Jest tylko dobrze albo źle napisana.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Youth! There is nothing like it. It’s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth. 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. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“How little do you know of love, if you say it mars your art! Without your art you are nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“There is alwyas something ridicoulous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“This portrait would be to him the most magical of the mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own bosy, so it would reveal to him his own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Dorian from the first moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memoryhaunts an artist like an exsquisite dream. I worshipped you, I grew jealous of everyone to whom ypu spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you. When you were away from me, you were still present in my art.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Ah! realise your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Never marry at all Dorian. Men marry because they're tired; women because they're curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“Beautiful sins like beautiful things are the privile of the rich”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One's own life — that is the important thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray

“I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dream of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadow of the art.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray