The Picture of Dorian Gray

Read it? If you don't get lost in late-19th Century prose, you should give it a whirl.

Some hilights:

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaitences for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."--Lord Henry, p. 10

"But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it coems from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."--Lord Henry, p. 11

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
"Why can't these American woemn stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the Paradise for women."
"It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it." --Lord Henry and Uncle George (?), p. 38

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unberable. There is something unfair about it. It is hitting below the intellect."--Lord Henry, p. 42

"Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor."--Lord Henry, p. 57

"A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quiet irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry they dare not realize."--Lord Henry, p. 60

"All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, with loating, we would do many times, and with joy."--p. 63

"The reason we all like to think so well of other is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."--Lord Henry, p. 79

"Women are wonderfully practical, much more practical than we are. In situations of this kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us."--Lord Henry, p. 81

"It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting."--Lord Henry, p. 89

"Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have someone with whom they could have scenes."--Dorian Gray, p. 95

"Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, aor a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons."--Lord Henry, p. 106

"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal class."--Lord Henry, p. 182

"He atones for being occasionally somewhate overdressed by being always absolutely overeducated."--Lord Henry, p. 186

"Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have mad our England what she is."--Lord Henry, p. 199

"As for omens, ther eis no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."--Lord Henry, p. 208-9

"My dear boy, they have only been talking about it for six weeks, and the British public are really nto equal to the mental strain of having mroe than one topic every three months."--Lord Henry, p. 217

"To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable."--Lord Henry, p. 221

"You will soon be going about like the converted and the revivalist, warning people against all the sins of which you have grown tired."--Lord Henry, p. 224

Obviously, Wilde felt that Henry should have all the good lines.

*is going to Oregon is just a few weeks*

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