Dorian Grey Quotes

#1. 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Walton Goggins

#2. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

#3. Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray."
"Dorian who?"
I sighed. "Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know."
"Sure thing, Gumdrop."
I grimaced. "I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. Humor is just another defense against the
universe.

Mel Brooks

#5. But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.

Marcel Proust

#6. Let me come in, please. I'm tired of being alone.

Katherine Allred

#7. If you face the light, shadow will always be behind you.

Sukant Ratnakar

#8. Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Patrick Macnee

#9. As we are - the world is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.

Will Rothhaar

#11. I could hardly breathe, watching her, and didn't even notice it was beginning to rain. I was just mesmerized by her. All eleven trillion cells of her.

Matt Haig

#12. People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Tryon Edwards

#13. The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Benedetto Croce

#14. Dorian's scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn't think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now.

Melissa Grey

#15. But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille's head.

Kami Garcia

#16. I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas