Chapter 11 Quotes Flashcards
Dorian description
‘He grew more and more enamoured if his own beauty, more and more…
interested in the corruption of his own soul’
Dorian thinking about family inheritance while looking at family portraits.
‘Some strange poisonous germ crept from body…
to body full it had reached his own?’
Dorian thinking about what he inherited from his mother.
‘His beauty, and his passion for…
the beauty of others’
‘For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say…
that he never sought to free himself from it.’
Yellow Book
‘the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life,…
written before he had lived it.’
Dorian
‘He always had the look of one who…
had kept himself unspotted from the world.’
Dorian
‘They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age…
that was at once sordid and sensual.’
‘looking now at the evil and aging face on the canvas and now at the fair young face that laughed back at him from the polished glass. The very sharpness of the contrast used to quicken his sense of pleasure. He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty,…
more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul. He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.’
Dorian
‘The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad…
hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.’
On Dorian’s fashion choices
‘their marked influence on the young exquisites of the Mayfair balls and Pall Mall club window, who…
copied him in everything that he did.’
Dorian on society
‘There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-denial …
and self-torture, whose origin was fear.’
’ A New Hedonism… Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the…
fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they may be.’
Dorian
‘He felt a curious delight in the thought that Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of…
bestial shape and with hideous voices.’
Dorian
‘he was almost saddened by the reflection of the ruin that Time brought on…
beautiful and wonderful things. He, at any rate, had escaped that.’
‘No winter marred his face or stained….
his flower like beauty. How different it was with material things!’
