The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Life has been your art."

"I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream."

"Moderation is a fatal thing."

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good."

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

"I have murdered my love."

"The price of exquisite things is exquisite loneliness."

"How shallow are the arbitrary distinctions that society makes upon dress and manners!"

"What is the use of having a beautiful face if one is going to have an ugly soul?"

"It is the will and not the deed that makes the crime."

"I can sympathize with everything except suffering."

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

"Art has no influence upon action."

"The man who says that he has lost nothing in this world is either a fool or a liar."

"Passion makes one think in a circle."

"To define is to limit."

"I am all wickedness up to my ears in sin."

"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say."

"I only know that morality is not a thing to be debated."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"I like persons better than principles."

"Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes."

"Ah! but what a pity Dorian, that you should have spoiled your life!"

"I suppose the only real tragedy is when one stops dreaming."

"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

"There is always something tedious about the past."

"I have always been my own master; had at least always been so till I met Dorian Gray."

"When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself."

"I worship you too much to feel jealousy of anybody."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."