The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. – Oscar Wilde

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. – Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” – Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. – Oscar Wilde

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. – Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. – Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. – Oscar Wilde

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. – Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes part 2

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. – Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. – Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. – Oscar Wilde

When one is unhappy, one sleeps. But when one is happy, one lies awake and pretends. – Oscar Wilde

I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. – Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. – Oscar Wilde

To be popular, one must be a mediocrity. – Oscar Wilde

Women are wonderfully practical; much more practical than we are. – Oscar Wilde

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. – Oscar Wilde

One should never take sides in anything: for or against. Divisions lead to hatred and hatred leads to disaster. – Oscar Wilde

Madam, I have never been in better form, and I assure you that my voice has never sounded better. Singing is a pleasure of mine that I have been indulging in a great deal of late, and I must say that I am rather proud of my voice. – Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. – Oscar Wilde

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. – Oscar Wilde

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. – Oscar Wilde

The marvelous flowers in the garden, grew big and fatty; when they gathered the marvelous flowers, that man held his hands together close to his chest, as if he would have brought a rose to his mouth as if he were about to eat a big clod of clay which he has compressed into the shape of a rose! – Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. – Oscar Wilde

The face of John the Baptist appeared in a still mirror. After seeing his own self-image, he smiled and placed a head on the plate. He followed this by singing a hymn of praise. – Oscar Wilde

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity. – Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing one can do with good advice is pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

Only one thing in the world is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

There’s only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah. – Oscar Wilde