The Picture of Dorian Gray

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past,"

crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations."

"Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

he grew cold with passion.

"one can survive everything nowadays except that. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there.

There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.

They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night.