30 Kutipan Terbaik Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Karya Oscar Wilde

Fimela.com, Jakarta The Picture of Dorian Gray adalah novel yang ditulis oleh Oscar Wilde dan telah diterbitkan oleh Pinguin Books pada tahun 2000. Novel dengan jumlah halaman sekitar 296 halaman ini bergenre fiksi.

Novel yang berjudul The Picture of Dorian Gray ini menceritakan tentang perjalanan hidup Dorian Gray sebagai seorang pria tampan. Cerita dimulai ketika Gray kembali ke London untuk melihat warisan keluarganya. Di sana, dia punya teman bernama Basil Hallward yang suka melukis.

Suatu hari, Basil melukis dan menggunakan Gray sebagai model karena dia adalah pria tercantik di kota itu. Hasil lukisan Dorian Gray sangat bagus sehingga membuat seorang pria bernama Lord Henry memujinya. Dia memuji gambar itu dan kemudian berkata kepada Gray bahwa pemuda adalah satu jadi jangan sia-siakan.

Dorian Gray terpengaruh oleh apa yang dikatakan Lord Henry, kemudian dia berdiri di depan gambar itu dan berdoa agar dia tidak pernah bertambah tua dan jika dia bertambah tua, dia ingin gambar itu berubah, bukan dirinya sendiri.

Mulai saat itu, konflik dalam novel ini pun berjalan. Meskipun novel ini bukan novel keluaran tahun terbaru, namun novel ini memiliki sejumlah kutipan yang sayang jika kamu lewatkan. Ada banyak kutipan terbaik yang bisa kamu simak.

Untuk itu, Fimela.com kali ini telah merangkum 30 kutipan terbaik novel The Picture of Dorian Gray karya Oscar Wilde. Dilansir dari goodreads.com, simak semua kutipannya di bawah ini.

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Kutipan Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Bagian I

1. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2. “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

3. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

4. “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

5. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

6. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

7. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

8. “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

9. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

10. “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Kutipan Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Bagian II

11. “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

12. “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

13. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

14. “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

15. “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

16. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

17. “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

18. “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

19. “I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

20. “I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Kutipan Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Bagian III

21. “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

22. “One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

23. “She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

24. “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

25. “The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

26. “When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

27. “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

28. “It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

29. “Man is many things, but he is not rational.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

30. “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray