بریده‌هایی از کتاب The Picture of Dorian Gray

we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."

the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."

to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know