The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
To define is to limit.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it
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
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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 the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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