
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
that terrible taedium vitae, that comes on those to whom life denies nothing;
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
She laughed nervously as she spoke, and watched him with her vague forget-me-not eyes.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"one can survive everything nowadays except that. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
the man who had painted the portrait that was the origin of all his shame was to be burdened for the rest of his life with the hideous memory of what he had done.