"The Picture of Dorian Gray" Quotes

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral.

It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done. You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The only way to treat a woman is to keep her in the dark, and feed her on little titbits.