Цитаты из книги Portretul lui Dorian Gray

Все хорошие шляпы создаются из ничего.

Он не умел сообщать отпечаток таланта всяким пустякам.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith, and the lesson of Romance.

‌The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.

Success was given to the strong, failure thurst upon the weak.

‌I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Поверить я могу во что угодно, и тем охотнее, чем оно невероятнее.

‌Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Разве притворство — такой уж великий грех? Едва ли. Оно лишь придает многообразие человеческой личности.

Спорят только бнзнадежные кретины.

Как это ни печально, Гений, несомненно, жолговечнее Красоты.

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

'I don't think I should like America.' 'I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,' said Virginia satirically. 'No ruins! no curiosities!' answered the Ghost, 'you have your navy and your manners.'

For the next three Saturdays, accordingly, he traversed the corridor as usual between midnight and three o'clock, taking every possible precaution against being either heard or seen. He removed his boots, trod as lightly as possible on the old worm-eaten boards, wore a large black velvet cloak, and was careful to use the Rising Sun Lubricator for oiling his chains.

Jack. Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? Gwendolen. I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?