“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
167 notes
·
View notes
the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde.
95 notes
·
View notes
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
ig credit: vintagesoul_reads.
3K notes
·
View notes
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
- Oscar Wilde, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
3K notes
·
View notes
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
572 notes
·
View notes
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
405 notes
·
View notes
me too oscar
615 notes
·
View notes
"But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us."
- The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
215 notes
·
View notes
I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat,
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
622 notes
·
View notes
'I was very fond of Basil,' said Dorian, with a note of sadness in his voice.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde
474 notes
·
View notes
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
195 notes
·
View notes
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
332 notes
·
View notes
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
690 notes
·
View notes