The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:knowledge

“The aim of life is self-development.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:self

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:selfhate

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:self

“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:strength

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:friendship

“And beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:beauty

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:beauty

“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:beautyevil

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:beautymeaning