The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:lifefear

“To become the spectator of one's own life . . . is to escape the suffering of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:lifepainsuffering

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:lifeart

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:lifereality

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

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:life

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:lifemusicartpoetry

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:deathcare

“It is perfectly monstrous . . . the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:truth

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

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:time

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenmenmarriage