The Picture of Dorian Gray

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

"Ah! realize your youth while you have it!"

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

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious."

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

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel nobody else has a right to blame us."

"Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."

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

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

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

"The mask tells us more than the face."

"I have been in love before, but I am not now. I am now in love for the first time."

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

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

"The mind has its own geography."

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

"Each time one loves is the only time one has ever loved."

"The ways of Providence are astonishing."

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

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

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else."

"I am afraid I cannot claim to be a cynic. What I am is a realist."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"To define is to limit."

"Youth is the one thing worth having."

"I can forgive anything except what I cannot forgive."