There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
14 quotes
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Scepticism is the beginning of faith.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.