The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

All art is quite useless.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

She was transfigured with joy. An ecstasy of happiness dominated her.

to him life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts,

I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.