Quotes about Perception

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.