The Picture of Dorian Gray

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"The soul is a terrible reality."

"Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"

"I have said what I had to say."

"The only tragedy in life is to get what you want."

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

"Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act."

"One's life matters most."

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

"Some people are worth melting for."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music."

"I wish I could love as you do, Harry."

"To define is to limit."

"Beauty is a form of genius."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"Music acts as a sort of mathematics for the soul."

"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies."

"Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

"The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing."