Basil Hallward

"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."

"I hope I shall grow old gracefully."

"Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me."

"To make oneself perfect is the aim of us all."

"I love my country, but I love my honor more."

"I wonder what the rest of your life will be."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"I hope you will always think of me as a friend."

"You cut life to pieces with your epigrams."

"My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite that flexible."

"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."

"The ways of Providence are astonishing."

"I grow sad when I think of the wasted beauty and the wasted youth."

"This is morality about art."

"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face."

"I have said what I had to say."

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist."

"Dorian Gray is my dearest friend. He has a wonderful influence over me."

"I wonder what the rest of the world gets. I hope they get something better than a caricature of beauty."

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

"I am afraid that there are moments when I cannot bear the mystery of your soul."

"It has never occurred to you, Dorian, that your refusal of my requests has much to do with the way you treat me now?"

"I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any importance in the world's history."

"Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me."

"The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master."

"There is a great difference between a man's own life and his art."