The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having."

People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....

a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered;

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.

"Religion?" "The fashionable substitute for belief."

He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.

"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes,"