Quotes About Dorian Gray

#1. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray

Stella Coulson

#2. What o'clock is it, Victor? asked Dorian Gray, sleepily.

Oscar Wilde

#3. I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.

Anne Sexton

#4. Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.

Oscar Wilde

#5. He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, a book which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through a similar experience.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde

#7. that. As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me. You can't feel what I feel. You change

Oscar Wilde

#8. Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Oscar Wilde

#9. A dream of form in days of thought'--who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.

Oscar Wilde

#10. The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jeweled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.

Oscar Wilde

#11. What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Oscar Wilde

#12. He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!

Sergei Lukyanenko

#13. Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Chinua Achebe

#14. Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Andy Serkis

#15. paused for a moment, and a wild feeling of pity came over him. After all, what right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray? If he had done a tithe of what was rumoured about him, how much he must have suffered! Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, and stood there,

Oscar Wilde

#16. 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

#17. people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

#18. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Rosamund Lupton

#19. experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray was a subject made to his hand, and seemed to promise rich and fruitful results. His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon

Oscar Wilde

#20. You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.

Abed Yaman

#21. Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

Oscar Wilde

#22. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Oscar Wilde

#23. His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade

Justin Bienvenue

#24. I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

Oscar Wilde

#25. I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

Oscar Wilde

#26. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

Oscar Wilde

#27. You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Oscar Wilde

#28. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Oscar Wilde

#29. There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

Oscar Wilde

#30. I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Oscar Wilde

#31. I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Oscar Wilde

#32. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Oscar Wilde

#33. The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Oscar Wilde

#34. There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Oscar Wilde

#35. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

#36. Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

Oscar Wilde

#37. What sort of life would his be if, day and night, shadows of his crime were to peer at him from silent corners, to mock him from secret places, to whisper in his ear as he sat at the feast, to wake him with icy fingers as he lay asleep!

Oscar Wilde

#38. Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

Oscar Wilde

#39. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.

Lord Henry Wotton