Sexuality quotes

Question 1

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to ______ to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself…” (Chapter 2)

“Every impulse that we strive to ______ broods in the mind and poisons us.” (Chapter 2)

“This grey, monstrous London of ours, with its… ______ sinners and its splendid sins.” (Chapter 3)

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are ______; women, because they are ______: both are disappointed.” (Chapter 4)

“My dear boy, no woman is a ______. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over ______.” (Chapter 4)

“For every sin that he committed, a ______ would fleck and wreck its fairness.” (Chapter 7)

“He would resist temptation. He would not see Lord Henry any more—would not, at any rate, listen to those subtle poisonous theories that in Basil Hallward’s garden had first stirred within him the passion for ______ things.” (Chapter 7)

“I was dominated, ______, brain, and power, by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.” (Chapter 9)

“I worshipped you. I grew ______ of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you.” (Chapter 9)

“That curiosity about life which Lord Henry had first stirred in him, as they sat together in the garden of their friend, seemed to increase with ______. The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he ______ them.” (Chapter 11)

Answer 1

Answer Key:
From The Picture of Dorian Gray:
yield
strangle
sordid
tired, curious
genius, morals
stain
impossible
soul
jealous
gratification, fed

Question 2

“My little nun has found the ______, has she?”

“A dozen husbands ______ a dozen brides.”

“I had been indefinitely ______ by the loss of my virginity.”

“The girl laughed. She knew she was nobody’s ______.”

“Took off her scarlet shawl, the colour of ______, the colour of sacrifices, the colour of her ______.”

“I wish I had a girl as white as ______, as red as ______, as black as that bird’s ______.”

“I showed his grave silence my white skin, my ______ nipples, and the horses turned their heads to watch me, also, as if they, too, were courteously curious as to the fleshly nature of women…”

“But now she is a woman, she must have ______.”

“He lays me down on his bed of rustling ______ where I lie at the mercy of his huge hands. He is the tender butcher who showed me how the price of flesh is love; ______ the rabbit, he says!”

“She would spend hours examining the new ______ that had been born, it seemed to her, of her ______.”

Answer 2

prayer-books, impaled
dishevelled, virginity, meat
scarlet, poppies
snow, blood, feather, skin, nipples
woman, men,
straw, hands
skin, bleeding