The Picture of Dorian Gray: Quotes

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• "It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter I

• "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter II

• "Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

  Dorian Gray · Chapter II

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

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter IV

• "It is the face of my soul."

  Dorian Gray · Chapter XIII

• "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter XIX

• "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter I

• "Youth is the only thing worth having."

  Dorian Gray · Chapter II

• "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

  The narrator · Chapter V

• "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

  Lord Henry Wotton · Chapter XIX

• "All art is quite useless."

  The Preface · The Preface

• "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

  The Preface · The Preface