The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray Flashcards
quotes - Transgression
“The only way to get …”
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it”
“It is the brain and …”
“It is the brain and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also”
“face on the canvas …”
“Face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins”
“For every sin he committed …”
“For every sin he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness”
“Wild joys …”
“Wild joys and wilder sins - he was to have all these things. The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame, that was all”
“He would resist …”
“He would resist temptation He would not listen to those poisonous theories”
“You have gone from …”
“You have gone from corruption to corruption, and now you have culminated in crime”
“He had mad …”
“He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them”
“You have filled them …”
“You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You have led them there”
“Sin is a thing …”
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face”
“If a wretched man has a vice …”
“If a wretched man has a vice it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids”
“The mad passions of …”
“The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred withing him”
“A mad …”
“A mad craving came over him”
“The hideous …”
“The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him”
“Nothing …”
“Nothing but my scarlet palpitating core remained”
“I longed …”
“I longed for him and he disgusted me”
“I took the …”
“I took the forbidden key from the heap and left the others lying there”
“A terrible guilty …”
“A terrible guilty joy as he slowly ascertained how I had sinned”
“She smiled …”
“She smiled at herself in mirrors a little too often these days”
“The master has but …”
“The master has but one desire. to see the pretty young lady unclothed”
“I always go to the Erl king…”
“I always go to the Erl King and he lays me down on his bed of rustling straw where I lie at the mercy of his huge hands”
“The Erl King will …”
“The Erl King will do you grievous harm”
“The countess had …”
“The countess had only one thought: how shall I be rid of her”
“A Queen of …”
“A Queen of night, a queen of terror - except her horrible reluctance of the role”
