starters from the 1890 story by oscar wilde, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
“what odd chaps you painters are!”
“i know you will laugh at me.”
“you don’t understand me.”
“i have grown to love secrecy.”
“you know quite well.”
“how often do you see him?”
“you are a wonderful creation.”
“the gods have been good to you, but what the gods give they quickly take away.”
“you will suffer horribly.”
“the only difference between a caprice and a life - long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
“how long will you like me?”
“i am in love with it.”
“i wish i could trust myself.”
“men marry because they are tired ; women, because they are curious ; both are disappointed.”
“who are you in love with?”
“i have chosen my own life.”
“kiss me again, my love.”
“don’t touch me!”
“can they feel, i wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?”
“we have each of us a secret. let me know yours, and i shall tell you mine.”
“i thought you would like it.”
“this is blasphemy!”
“can’t you see what i am going through?”
“it has destroyed me.”
“those words mean nothing to me now.”
“i killed him.”
“i want a man’s life.”
“i am not even singed. my winds are untouched.”
“you mustn’t say those dreadful things!”
“i am not the same.”