Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.

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"Culture and corruption," echoed Dorian. "I have known something of both. It seems terrible to me now that they should ever be found together. For I have a new ideal, Harry. I am going to alter. I think I have altered."

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"The people are still discussing poor Basil‘s disappearance."

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"Harry, did it ever occur to you that Basil was murdered?"

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I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

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One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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It used to remind me of those curious lines in some play--Hamlet, I think--how do they run?--
  
  "Like the painting of a sorrow,
  A face without a heart."


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Lord Henry laughed. "If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart," he answered, sinking into an arm-chair.
  

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Dorian Gray shook his head and struck some soft chords on the piano. "‘Like the painting of a sorrow,‘" he repeated, "‘a face without a heart.‘"

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"By the way, Dorian," he said after a pause, "‘what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose--how does the quotation run?--his own soul‘?"

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"Don‘t, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it."

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