IF in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - if in The Picture of Dorian Gray
1  The lad started, as if awakened from some dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
3  I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  I remember the whole thing as if it happened yesterday.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
6  His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  He felt as if a hand of ice had been laid upon his heart.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  Basil," cried Dorian Gray, "if Lord Henry Wotton goes, I shall go, too.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
11  Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
12  Parker has brought out the drinks, and if you stay any longer in this glare, you will be quite spoiled, and Basil will never paint you again.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
13  Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
16  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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
17  At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him, but who was considered generous by Society as he fed the people who amused him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.