The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde:

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
• Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
• To define is to limit.
• Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
• There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
• Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
• To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.