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By Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Source
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 · Chapter I, p. 3
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of the 1891 book edition, London and New York: Ward, Lock)
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From Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (London and New York: Ward, Lock, 1891), the book edition with the added chapters and the Preface. The line is spoken by the character Lord Henry Wotton. It is in the first chapter.