Top Dorian Gray Quotes

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfu...

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as...

But in reality, with Mr. Ellison there is an essence of probity about him; unlike Dorian Grey, him and his hidden portrait are both wonderful. When he speaks there is a certain intonation he gets that...

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.