Quotes by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no ef — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our sense — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
What fire does not destroy, it hardens — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History wou — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's b — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Even things that are true can be proved. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities beco — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one n — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what th — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything e — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray