Dorian Gray Quotes Flashcards
DG (purity, virginity, blank canvas)
‘youth’s passionate purity’
DG (youth, purity)
‘candour of youth’
DG (appearance)
‘delightful contrast’
Basil (appearance)
‘dull’
LH -> DG (influence)
‘seek to dominate him’
Sybil Vane (appearance)
‘ordinary’
DG -> LH (passion)
‘you filled me with a wild desire’
DG -> LH (beauty, appearance)
‘the search for beauty being the real secret of life’
LH (women, objectification)
‘women love being dominated’
LH (marriage)
‘business transaction’
LH -> DG (obsession)
‘he is absolutely necessary to me’
Basil -> DG (art)
‘he is all my art to me’
LH (appearance)
‘conscience and cowardice are the same things’
LH (manipulation)
‘pulling the daisy to bits with his long, nervous fingers’
LH (influence)
‘there is no such thing as good influence’
LH (temptation)
‘the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield it’
LH (art)
‘without art you are nothing’
LH -> Sybil Vane (appearance)
‘a third rate actress with a pretty face’ ‘a complete failure’ ‘absolutely incompetent’
JH (aestheticism, hedonism, influence)
‘colour of romance’
Basil -> LH (loss, mourning)
‘can’t you see that my heart is breaking’
DG (façade)
‘looked upon the mask of his shame’
Basil (homosexuality)
‘there is nothing to keep me straight’
