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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's

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Oscar Wilde (36)

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

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Principles, Aestheticism, Master, life choices, influence

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Attraction, Infatuation, Confession of Love, Romantic Feeling, charmed

“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: secrecy, Privacy, private person, Private life, hiding the people you like

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Destiny, chances

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

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Sorrows, ending sorrow, Overcoming Adversity, self control, choosing happiness over sadness

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

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Materialism, Society, society today, price vs. value, Values

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of ar…”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Failed Relationship, Hate

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Human Emotion, Human All Too Human

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: being natural, pose, natural at what you do, Talent

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, Memories, Past Days, humor

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: losing one's soul, selling one's soul, Fame, Wealth, owning the world

“I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Cherish, Love and Affection, Caring For Others

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Sin, transgression, Vices, viciousness, human beings

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, strength

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Emotions Taking Over, How To Handle Emotions

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Lips

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Passions, maturity, self, Self & Identity, Self Construction

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotion, Smile, Body Gestures