Цитаты из книги Portretul lui Dorian Gray

Don’t talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

To be in love is to surpass one’s self.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

— Как жалка несбыточная любовь, — сказал студент. — Очевидно, в наш век заслуживает внимания только все практичное.

Все по настоящему прекрасные вещи внезапны.

От него ко мне шли какие - то тонкие флюиды, и впервые в жизни я увидел в обычном лесу тайну, которую всегда искал и никогда не находил.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Why didn’t you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

The mere danger gave me a sense of delight.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot

he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? He had known Basil Hallward for months, but the friendship between then had never altered him. Sud- denly there had come some one across his life who seemed to have disclosed to him life’s mystery. And, yet, what was there to be afraid of?

Women have no appreciation of good looks. At least, good women have not.