Цитаты из книги Портрет Дориана Грея - страница 18

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral.

Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not.

One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends - those were the fascinating things in life.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.