Цитаты из книги «The Picture of Dorian Gray»

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral – immoral from the scientific point of view."

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

A dream of form in days of thought

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

"and I am afraid you will hardly understand it. Perhaps you will hardly believe it."

"This play was good enough for us, Harry. It was 'Romeo and Juliet.' I must admit that I was rather annoyed at the idea of seeing Shakespeare done in such a wretched hole of a place. Still, I felt interested, in a sort of way. At any rate, I determined to wait for

Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.

Facts fled before her like frightened forest things. Her white feet trod the huge press at which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red

Dorian Gray never took his gaze off him, but sat like one under a spell, smiles chasing each other over his lips, and wonder growing grave in his darkening eyes.