Chapter 1
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.Read in Books4Free →
Iconic Epigrams and Quotable Lines
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Wilde's novel is studded with quotable paradoxes, most delivered by Lord Henry, that have become detached cultural property.
Chapter 2
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.Read in Books4Free →
Chapter 6
'I can resist everything except temptation.'-style witticisms and Lord Henry's definitions of cynicism.
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Lord Henry on women, marriage, and society at the country house -- his most concentrated paradox-making.
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