That is not even a compliment." "It was not intended as a compliment.

It was a confession.

Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me.

Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words." "It was a very disappointing confession." "Why, what did you expect, Dorian?
You didn't see anything else in the picture, did you?
There was nothing else to see ?" "No; there was nothing else to see.

Why do you ask?
But you mustn't talk about worship.