They had not influenced his nature. Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity. That had stirred him at the time, and now, as he stood gazing at the shadow of his own loveliness, the full reality of the description flashed across him.
Basil Hallward's compliments had seemed to him to be merely the charming exaggerations of friendship
There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!”
there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.
Ah! when you have lost it you won't smile… People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
“I don't want you to meet him.”
The sunset had smitten into scarlet gold the upper windows of the houses opposite
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.
Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul
