Dorian Gray Attic Quotes

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.

Dorian gray attic quotes. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. The narrator reveals lord henry s thoughts and plans after learning of dorian s history and lack of family ties. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Here are 25 the picture of dorian gray quotes on beauty and corruption.

Lord henry understands that he can mold and shape dorian to his own liking. Your voice and the voice of sibyl vane are two things that i shall never forget. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

He glanced wildly around. Never marry at all dorian. Just as basil transformed dorian into a work of art basil could call his own lord henry seeks to transform dorian into an entity of his own making. 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.

A great poet a really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. Wilde who was famous for his wit used the controversial work to explore his ideas about art beauty morality and love. The picture of dorian gray is the only known novel by oscar wilde. Lord henry shares his ideas about artists including basil with.

Good artists simply exist in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. It first appeared in lippincott s monthly magazine in 1890 and was revised and published as a book the following year. The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world.