The Picture of Dorian Gray * Quotes

"If only it was the picture who was to grow old, and I remain young. There's nothing in the world I wouldn't give for that. Yes, I would give even my soul for it."

"No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is."

"One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable."

"I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks, Sir Thomas, I'd forgotten that you were a member of Parliament."

"I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything at all."

"I'm analyzing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."