The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

"I am afraid that I cannot help you there. You would require being born again."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."

"I wish I could love as you do, but I seem to have lost the faculty."

"Youth is the only thing worth having."

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

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

"What is past is of no consequence. The present is what matters."

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

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

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

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

"I take no credit to myself for my musical taste."

"Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."

"This is morality about art."

"I have grown to love secrecy."

"My dear boy, the truth isn't quite so simple."

"What fire was in the heart that fed this strange new worship?"