Dorian Gray Quotes
Dorian Gray Quote of the day
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:
You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
