1 Well, I will tell you what it is.
2 It is like surrendering a part of them.
3 The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
4 It is better not to be different from one's fellows.
5 The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
6 My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am.
7 I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing.
8 Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
9 "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly.
10 It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.
11 Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
12 It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
13 You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
14 There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings.
15 Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
16 He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
17 "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush.
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