You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 4. Dorian Gray really has it bad for Sibyl. He sounds as if he really loves her. But he is attracted to her as an actress on a stage and is more infatuated with her art and how she appears in her stage roles that he is with her person.