Dorian Gray Quotes

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. No

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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