Chapter 1

• "The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play."
• "The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul."
• "I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself." 
• "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them." 
• "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. 
• "Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing
• "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young
• If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
• "Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin
• My God, Harry, how I worship her!"
• "I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him."
• "I hope that Dorian Gray will make this woman his wife, passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated by someone else. He would be a wonderful study."
• The gods made Sibyl Vane for you. Without her you are incomplete."
• she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
• "You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect.
• You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid."
• the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing."
• “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”