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

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is t

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak.

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

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

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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

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

Dorian Gray was the type of everything that is wonderful and fascinating in life.