Quotes About The Picture Of Dorian Gray

#1. Probably it's true what you think and you know... but I don't caareeee I'm a fake character...

Deyth Banger

#2. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#5. Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Walter Cronkite

#6. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#10. I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Taliesin

#11. 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

#12. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

#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. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

#17. Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

Dwight Yoakam

#18. Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Sparky Anderson

#19. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

#21. Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

Oliver Sacks