Dorian Gray Quotes Flashcards
“The lines of cruelty round the mouth…
… as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing”
“The terrible…
…pleasure of a double life”
“Each of us…
…has heaven and hell in him, Basil”
“That such a change should have taken place was incredible to him…
… And yet it was a fact.”
“Was there some subtle affinity…
… between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him?”
“Had some strange germ…
… crept from body to body til it had reached his own?”
“It was useless. The brain had its own food on which it battened…
… and the imagination, made grotesque by horror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks”
“Watched with listless eyes…
… the sordid shame of the great city”
“eternal youth, infinite passion…
… pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins”
“Yes: there was to be as Lord Henry had prophesised…
… a new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to sae it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival”
“The twisted limbs, the gaping mouthsm the staring lustreless eyes, fascinated him…
… He knew what in strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy”
“Lying on the floor was a dead man…
… He was withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage”
“Courage has gone out of our race…
… The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religon- these are the two things that govern us.”
