Chapter 4 Quotes Flashcards
Lord Henry
‘One could never pay too high a price…
for any sensation’
Lady Henry
‘Ah! that is one of Harry’s views, isn’t it, Mr Gray? …
I always hear Harry’s views from his friends’
shows his manipulative ability
Lord Henry
‘Nowadays people know the price of everything…
and the value of nothing’
epigram
Lady Henry
‘Looking like a bird of paradise that had been …
out all night in the rain.’
beautiful but sad?
‘Who are you in love with?’ Asked Lord Henry, after a pause…
‘With an actress’ said Dorian Gray, blushing.
he does not say ‘Sibyl Vane’ he is in love with her for her profession and the way she can act, not who is she is as a person.
Lord Henry
‘My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are…
a decorative sex’
women’s role in society is just to look pretty
Dorian
‘This grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, and it’s …
splendid sins’
Dorian about London
‘Labyrinth of grimy streets and black, …
grassless squares’
London is a dire place
Dorian
‘A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance…
smoking a vile cigar’
‘He was such a monster’
ANTI SEMITIC?
D about theatre
‘It was a tawdry affair, all cupids and cornucopia, like a third-rate…
wedding cake’
D about Sybil
‘Imagine a girl hardly seventeen years of age, with a little flower-like face, a small Greek head with plaited could of dark brown hair, eyes that were violet wells of passion…
lips that were like the petals if a rose. She was the loveliest thing I had ever seen in my life.’
flower imagery used to describe Sibyl, she is beautiful and young and delicate
Dorian about Sibyl
‘She is everything to me in life. Night after night I go to see her play. One evening she is…
Rosalind , and the next evening she is Imogen’
He is in love with her acting
D to LH
‘Why didn’t you tell me that the only thing with loving is …
an actress?’
D to LH
‘You have a curious…
influence over me’
D to LH
‘Sibyl Vane is…
sacred!’
Dorian
‘Horrid old…
Jew’
Sibyl to D
‘You look more like a Prince. I must call you …
Prince Charming’
she sees him as someone who can rescue her from her life of poverty and boredom and her trapped life in theatre.
Sybil described by D
‘She knows nothing of…
life’
he finds her innocence attractive
D about Sibyl
’ The Jew wanted to tell me about her history, but I said…
it did not interest me’
he does not want to know her, he likes only her acting ability
D about Sibyl
‘When I think about the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little …
ivory body, I am filled with awe’
ivory, beautiful, valuable, white so pure
D and Lord H
‘When is she Sibyl Vane?’ -LH
‘Never’-D
he doesn’t like the real her, he likes her when she is somebody else
Dorian
‘My God, Harry, how I …
worship her’
LH about D
‘His nature had developed like a flower, had borne…
blossoms of scarlet flame’
He has become destructive and dangerous
LH on Dorians love for Sibyl
‘It made him a more…
interesting study’
LH uses Dorian as a sort of weird science experiment into the human mind
LH’s ‘science’
‘So he had begun by vivisection himself, as he had ended by vivisection others. Human life…
that appeared to gun the one thing worth investigating’
