Chapter 8 Quotes Flashcards
Dorian
‘Unnecessary things are our only…
necessities.’
Dorian
‘Had the portrait really changed? or had it been simply his own imagination that had…
made him see a look of evil where there had been a look of joy?’
Dorian
‘saw himself face to face. It was perfectly…
true. The portrait had altered.’
Dorian
‘He found himself at first gazing at the portrait with a feeling of almost…
scientific interest.’
new age science life of Victorians
Dorian
‘gazing at the picture in…
sickened horror’
‘But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an…
ever present sign of the ruin men bought upon their souls.’
Dorain to LH
‘I can’t bear the idea of my soul…
being hideous.’
D to LH
‘You cut life to…
pieces with your epigrams.’
Dorian
'’so I have murdered Sibyl Vane, … murdered her as surely…
as if I had cut her little throat with a knife.’’
Dorian
‘If I had read this in a book, Harry, I think…
I would have wept over it.’
he cannot feel his own life, he is like a spectator to his own life, something LH encourages
Dorian
‘It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a …
Greek tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.’
LH about S
‘There is something beautiful about her…
death.’
LH about women
‘They love being…
dominated.’
LH
‘The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died. To you at least she was always a dream, a…
phantom that filled through Shakespeare’s plays and left them lovelier for its presence.’
LH to D
‘Mourn over Ophelia if you like… But don’t waste your…
tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.’
he never loved the real version of her
Dorian
‘She had atoned for everything, by the…
sacrifice she had made of her life.’
Dorian
‘Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder secrets- he was to…
have these things. The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.’
Dorian
‘Once in boyish mockery of Narcissus he had kissed, or feigned to kiss,…
those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him.’
Dorian
‘Was it to become a monstrous and loathsome thing, to be hidden away in a locked room… …
the pity of it! the pity of it!.’
Dorian
‘For there would be a real pleasure in watching it… This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would…
reveal to him his own soul. And when winter came to it, he would still be standing where spring trembles on the verge of summer.’
spring is a metaphor for young as it is the time of new life.
Dorian
‘Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever…
fade. Not one pulse of his life would ever weaken.’
