The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Was there anything so real as words?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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