Chapter 10 Quotes Flashcards
Description of the painting
‘Bestial, sodden and…
unclean’
he becomes a beast
Dorian
‘He winced at the mention of his Grandfather. He had…
hateful memories of him’
he later becomes like his granddad was
Dorian about the painting
‘That would serve to wrap the…
dreadful thing in.’
Dorian
‘Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself- something that would breed horrors and yet would never die. What the worm was to the corpse, his…
sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar it’s beauty, and eat away its grace. They would dephile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would always be alive.’
it is a living thing
Dorian
‘Basil could have saved him. But it…
was too late now.’
Basil is a wise character and has the power to save Dorian, but he feels it is too late.
‘There was something about Dorian that…
charmed everybody.’
‘he unlocked the door that opened into the room that was to keep for him the curious secret…
of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men.’
The attic
‘built by the last Lord Kelso for the use of the little grandson whom, for his strange likeness to his mother, and also for other reasons, he had…
always hated and desired to keep at a distance.’
attic
‘There was a huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically-painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which…
he had so often hidden himself as a boy.’
shows how Dorian likes to hide in a beautiful exterior
Dorian
‘He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here….
the fateful portrait was to be hidden away.’
Dorian
‘Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? he kept his…
youth- that was enough.’
Dorian on the portrait
‘It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the…
hideousness of age was in store for it.’
Dorian
‘The picture had to be concealed…
There was no hope for it.’
Dorian about the framer
‘He felt ready to leap upon him and fling him to the ground if he dared to….
lift the gorgeous hanging that concealed the secret of his life.’
Dorian
‘It was a horrible thing to have a spy in one’s own house. He had heard of rich men who had been ….
blackmailed all their lives by some servant who had read a letter, or overheard a conversation,’
