Quotes about Reflection

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

For the past is what man should not have been.  The present is what man ought not to be.  The future is what artists are.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.