Best Of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Above: Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lancere (c.1910) by Zinaida Serebriakova


"But poor Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly as an auctioneer treats his goods. She either explains them entirely away, or tells one everything about them except what one wants to know."


"I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains."


"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly,--that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self."


Influencers, Wilde-style:

"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed."


"She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest."


"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."


"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by conversation."


"He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their mysteries to reveal."


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


"I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty."


"There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt."


"I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days have been your sonnets."





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