The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are the shallow people."

"I love beautiful things that talk of beauty and romance."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Ugliness is one of the seven deadly virtues."

"I am too fond of the good things of life to want to give them up."

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

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

"I hope I shall grow old gracefully."

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

"There ought to be some compensation for that."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you have been."

"I can sympathize with everything except suffering."

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age."

"The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography."

"I suppose I should be flattered."

"The youth of the present are quite monstrous."

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

"What is past is prologue."

"I can explain everything except my own life."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt."

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative."

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

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions."

"Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary."

"The secret to remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."

"I wish I could love as you love."

"Beauty is a form of genius."

"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth."