The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

“Women . . . inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:women

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenbeauty

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenpast

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenmenmind

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenweakness

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenmenfuturepast

“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenmenchangeboredom

“Women . . . spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:womenromance

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:knowledge

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:knowledge