The Picture of Dorian Gray

Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

sicken of them.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to

Certainly few people had ever interested him so much as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad adoration of some one else caused him not the slightest pang of annoyance or jealousy. He was pleased by it. It made him a more interesting study.

"I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love.

But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."