Chapter 17 Quotes Flashcards
‘A jaded looking man of…
sixty’
Shows distain towards age
Lord Henry
‘Yesterday I cut an orchid for my buttonholed. It was a marvellous spotted thing…
as effective as the seven deadly virtues.’
Dorian about Lord Henry
‘His name is …
Prince Paradox’
He says one thing and does another
Lord Henry
‘Beer, the bible and the seven deadly virtues have made our England…
what she is.’
Duchess to Lord Henry
‘What are you?’
‘To define is…
to limit.’
What are you not who are you, she sees his devilish ways? And he does not want a definition
Duchess about Dorian
‘I believe he thinks that Monmouth married me in purely…
scientific principles as the best specimen he could find of a modern butterfly.’
Shows the Victorian obsession of collecting beauty even if it means killing the thing inside (like LH with Dorian perhaps)
Also shows the objectification of women
‘A burnt child loves…
the fire.’
Dorian loves the sins that burn him and ruin him
LH about Women
‘Sphinxes without…
secrets.’
‘Pressed again the windows of the conservatory, like a white handkerchief. He had seen …
the face of James Vane.’
white handkerchief - pale and ill like James for looking for Dorian