This is an incomplete slideshow going back and forth between quotes from "The Picture of Dorian Gray," By Oscar Wildge, and Jewish sources. It is sometimes a compairison of things written in that book and, l'havdil elef alfei havdalos, Yiddishkeit. I think it makes for interesting analysis.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray: By Oscar Wilde Torah thoughts from a surprising place

2. "How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

3. Sir Henry Wotton: The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

4. Kol yehudi sheain lo isha sharui blo simcha blo bracha blo tova blo torah blo choma blo shalom -Yevamos 25a Any Jew who doesn’t have a wife; lives without joy, without blessing, without goodness, without Torah, without protection, and without peace.

5. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

6. Kol Haposeil, b’mumo poseil - Kiddushin 70a Anyone who puts down another, does so with his own faults

7. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

8. That curiosity about life which Lord Henry had first stirred in him, as they sat together in the garden of their friend, seemed to increase with gratification. The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

9. Aiver katan yesh lo l’adam; marivin, sovah. Masbi’o ro’av – Sukkah 52b There is a part of man which; when you starve it is satisfied and when you try to sate it, starves.

10. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

11. True Meaning of Chesed….. ?