The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Lord Henry Wotton

Basil Hallward,

conjectures.

comely

a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed abo...

You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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. The moment one sits down

to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professi...

Your cynicism is simply a pose.”

“What a place to find one’s divinity in!” said Lord Henry.