Since I am enjoying reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and i am really enjoying all the quotes from it, ive decided to do a thread on all the quotes as i read them. Just for the sake of Oscar Wilde

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

"The charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties"

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know"

"The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."

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

"When I like people immensely, i never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm"

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

“Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it."

"There is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty."

"The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. Its is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral-immoral from the scientific point of view. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. "

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful."

"The great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances"

"Always! Thats is a dreadful word... Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make its last for ever"

"The only difference between a caprice and life long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."