The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

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

there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There is nothing that Art cannot express,

‘I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.’

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.*

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.