Chapter 9 Quotes Flashcards
Basil to Dorian in shock
‘You went to the Opera while Sibyl Vane was …
Lying dead in some sordid lodging?’
Basil to Dorian
‘You talk as if you have no heart, no …
pity in you. It’s all Harry’s influence. I see that.’
Dorian
‘My dear Basil! Surely you don’t think it was a vulgar…
accident? Of course she killed herself.’
Dorian about Sibyl to Basil
‘She lives her finest tragedy. She was…
always a heroine.’
Dorian to Basil
‘Her death has all the pathetic uselessness of…
martyrdom, all its wasted beauty.’
Dorian to Basil
‘To become the spectator of one’s own life, as Harry says, is to…
escape the suffering of life.’
Dorian to Basil
'’To exhibit it! You want to exhibit it?’ exclaimed Dorian Gray, a strange sense of …
terror creeping over him. Was the world going to be shown his secret?’
Basil
‘Dorian from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary…
influence over me. I was dominated, souls, brain and power by you.’
Basil
‘I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted…
to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you.’
Basil on his confession of worship to Dorian
‘Ah! You don’t know what it …
cost me to tell you all that I have told you.’
Basil about his confession of adoration
‘It was not intended as a compliment. It was a …
confession.’
Dorian
‘There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship…
so coloured by romance.’
Dorian.
‘The portrait must be hidden away at all costs. He could not…
run such a risk of discovery again.’
