ドリアン・グレイの肖像

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains.

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

I like to find out people for myself. But poor Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly as an auctioneer treats his goods. She either explains them entirely away, or tells one everything about them except what one wants to know.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

A curious instinct of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

You know we poor painters have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to re- mind the public that we are not savages.

I can believe anything, provided that it is incredible

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a por- trait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself

I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues.