Dorian Gray Attic Quotes

Here are 25 the picture of dorian gray quotes on beauty and corruption.

Dorian gray attic quotes.

The narrator reveals lord henry s thoughts and plans after learning of dorian s history and lack of family ties. The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. It first appeared in lippincott s monthly magazine in 1890 and was revised and published as a book the following year. Dorian gray quotes 1 you know how a voice can stir one.

They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. He glanced wildly around. The picture of dorian gray quotes showing 1 30 of 2 240 the books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame oscar wilde the picture of dorian gray tags. Good artists simply exist in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The picture of dorian gray is the only known novel by oscar wilde. An example of the damage done by the portrait is shown in chapter 13 when dorian is driven to repeatedly stab basil in the chest as it shows in this quote the mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him and he loathed the man sitting at the table more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything. Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious. Lord henry understands that he can mold and shape dorian to his own liking.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. A great poet a really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures.

Lord henry shares his ideas about artists including basil with. Wilde who was famous for his wit used the controversial work to explore his ideas about art beauty morality and love. Your voice and the voice of sibyl vane are two things that i shall never forget.