The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

To define is to limit. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I can resist anything except temptation. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The imagination is a faculty that is the key to experiencing everything more intensely. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes part 2

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral… Immoral from the scientific point of view. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth! – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Life is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it will smile back at you. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Genius lasts longer than beauty. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight or springtime or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is no sin except stupidity. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – The Picture of Dorian Gray