"I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours."
- Oscar Wilde
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
"A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written by the Devil himself:"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.Re..."
- Syrie James
"I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity."
"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
"I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:"
"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
"because to influence a person is to give one's own soul."
"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."
"But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting."