ドリアン・グレイの肖像

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion, for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.

Realize your youth while you have it

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

I suppose he has been paying you compliments. You mustn’t believe a word that he says.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

It seemed to him that he had been walking in fire. Why had he not known it?

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it

But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.