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The Picture of Dorian Gray quotes

5 quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Lord Henry (dialogue) · Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter I
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the Preface
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Lord Henry (dialogue) · Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter II
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Lord Henry (dialogue) · Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIX
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Narration (Lord Henry's reflection) · Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter III

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