Quotes of: Motion-pictures Keyword

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Polly Berrien Berends