Chapter 19 Quotes Flashcards
Lord Henry about crime
‘Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don’t blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime is to them…
what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations’
D on his transformation to goodness
‘I am going to alter. I think I have …
altered.’
D on Hetty
‘Suddenly I determined to leave her as…
flower like as I had found her.’
Link to Sibyl Vane, her flower was trampled, he wants to be better
D
‘I want to be better. I am going…
to be better.’
LH
‘Death is the only thing that ever…
terrifies me. I hate it.’
Victorian fear of death, having lived a hedonistic life will he go to hell?
D quoting hamlet
‘Like the painting of a sorrow’ he repeated ‘ a face..
without a heart’
The link to Shakespeare is reminiscent of Sibyl Vane. He like hamlet is about to face a tragic end.
D
‘The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and stuff is, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or…
made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us I know it.’
LH about Dorian’s youth
‘You must have some…
secret.’
LH
Ah! Dorian, how happy you are! What an exquisite life you have had! You have drunk deeply of everything. You have…
crushed the grapes against your palate.’
LH to D
‘You are quite…
flawless now’
Little does he know, or does he know?
LH
‘I wish I could change places with you Dorian. The world has always cried out against us both, but it has always…
worshipped you.’
LH to D
‘Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your…
Sonnets.’
D to LH
‘Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should…
not forgive that.’
