Picture Of Dorian Gray Quotes

• It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.90, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• "There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Soul, Influence

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings".

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• I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

  Oscar Wilde

  Curves, Lines, Certain

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.177, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Madness, Horror

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.201, Diversion Books

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• You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Destroyed

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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