1 The gods made Sibyl Vane for you.
2 God was very good, and would watch over him.
3 Yes, Mr. Gray, the gods have been good to you.
4 But what the gods give they quickly take away.
5 "Before God I am telling the truth," she cried.
6 Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods.
7 Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous.
8 "For God's sake don't talk to me," cried Dorian, stamping his foot on the ground.
9 And it is all his, his only, Prince Charming, my wonderful lover, my god of graces.
10 There was a God who called upon men to tell their sins to earth as well as to heaven.
11 Not "Forgive us our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God.
12 Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness.
13 The King of Malabar had shown to a certain Venetian a rosary of three hundred and four pearls, one for every god that he worshipped.
14 The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.
15 His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion, and the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all.