The Picture of Dorian Gray

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

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

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"I loved her once. I think I still do."

"My father never read a book."

"The only immorality is not to do what one likes."

"I grew tired of their tragedies."

"My conscience is no longer my guide."

"I wish you would tell me that you are wicked, Harry."

"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis fail."

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful."

"Ugliness is the only real evil in the world."

"I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."

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

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"What is past is past."

"I have lost the passion of my youth."

"Why is it that a man who knows everything is bored."

"Passion makes one think in circles."

"The thing one most wants to do is the very thing that is probably wrong."

"All men are bad in the same way, and all the worse for that."

"Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."

"I have grown to love secrecy."

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

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

"I am not what I seem. Really I am a very sad person."