59 Quotes by Oscar Wilde (Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

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1 Time is jealous of you, Mr. Gray. Don't squander the gold of your days. Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing. There is such a little time that your youth will last and you can never get it back.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

2 The world is yours for a season. It would be tragic if you realized too late as so many others do that there is only one thing in the world worth having, and that is youth.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

3 If only the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now. For that I would give everything. Yes, there's nothing in the whole world I would not give. I would give my soul for that.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

4 You have an intellectual expression, and intellect destroys the beauty of any face.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

5 Being natural is simply a pose and the most irritating pose I know.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

6 I always choose my friends for their good looks and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

7 I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

8 There's no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral. -Why? -Because the aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

9 A man should live out his life fully and completely, give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

10 Always? That's a dreadful word. It makes me shudder to hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

59 Quotes by Oscar Wilde (Sound Clips)

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