Dorian - Quotes

Quotes on Basil - 4

‘he is absolutely necessary to me’ ‘he is all my art to me now’ 'your very soul is sick to death' 'don't spoil him...don't try to influence him'

Quotes on threat - 5

‘rich odour of roses’ ‘pink-flowering thorn’ ‘if it were I who was to always be young’ ‘I would give my soul for that’ ‘great cool lilac blossoms’

Quotes on gender roles - 6

‘her clever tongue gets on ones nerves’ ‘women are a decorative sex’ ‘no woman is a genius’ ‘to some little actress or other’ ‘Prince Charming’ 'you came - oh my beautiful love! - and freed my soul from prison'

Quotes on corruption - 3

‘I can resist anything except temptation’ ‘Lord Henry smiled, and, leaning down, plucked a pink petalled daisy from the grass’ ‘don’t spoil him…don’t try to influence him. Your influence would be bad’

Quotes on aestheticism - 4

‘without art you are nothing’ ‘you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that’ ‘youth is the one thing worth having’ ‘there is something quite beautiful about her death’

Quotes on hedonism and decadence - 3

‘air of a young Greek martyr’ ‘one could never pay too high a price for any sensation’ ‘unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality’

Quotes on class - 2

‘but think of Dorian’s birth and position, it would be absurd for him to marry so much beneath him’ ‘some little actress or other’

Quotes on women

‘women are better suited to sorrow than men’ ‘they are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art’

Quotes on supernatural - 3

'if it were I who would remain eternally young' 'the thing was horribly apparent' 'it would always be alive'