1 When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale.
2 Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life.
3 It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
4 I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues.
5 Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
6 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.
7 You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
8 "I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil Hallward, strolling towards the door that led into the garden.
9 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.
10 "I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford.
11 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.
12 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.
13 Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
14 Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.
15 I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
16 Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
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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