Chapter 12 Quotes Flashcards
Basil about Dorian
‘I adored you madly…
extravagantly, absurdly’
D when B wants to talk to him
‘I hope it is not about myself. I am tires of myself to-night. I should…
like to be someone else.’
‘I think it right that you should know that the most dreadful things are being said against you in London.’ (B)
‘I don’t wish to know anything about them. I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have…
not got the charm of novelty.’ (D)
‘They must interest you Dorian. Every gentleman is interested in his good name. You don’t want people to think of you as something vile and degraded.’
Basil
‘Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the…
lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.’
Basil
‘But you, Dorian, with your pure, bright, innocent face, and your marvellous untroubled youth- …
I can’t believe anything against you.’
Basil
‘Why is your friendship so fatal…
to young men?’
Dorian to Basil
‘You forget we are in the native land of the …
hypocrite.’
Basil
‘English society is…
all wrong.’
Basil to Dorian
‘You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone…
down into the depths. You led them there.’
Basil to Dorian
‘stories that you have been seen creeping at dawn out of dreadful houses and slinking…
in disguise into the foulest dens in London.’
Basil to Dorian
‘you have a wonderful influence. Let it be for good, not for evil. They say that you…
corrupt every one with whom you become intimate.’
'’I wonder do I know you? Before I could answer that I should have to see your soul.’ (B)
‘To see my soul!’ muttered Dorian…
starting up from the sofa and turning almost white from fear.’
Dorian to Basil about his soul
’ A bitter laugh of mockery broke from the lips of the younger man ‘You should see…
it yourself, to-night!’
Dorian to Basil
‘You have chatted enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it …
face to face.’
‘Dorian Gray smiled. There was a curl of…
contempt in his lips.’
