As we grow older, our memories are haunted by the exquisite temptations we hadn't the courage to yield to.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

6 seconds sound clip from the The Picture of Dorian Gray movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:08:33.661 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Turn your head a little more to the left, Dorian.

- The gods have been good to you, Mr. Gray.

- Why do you say that?

- Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.

- I don't feel that, Lord Henry.

- No, you don't feel it now, but some day you'll feel it terribly.

- What the gods give, they quickly take away.

- Time is jealous of you, Mr. Gray. Don't squander the gold of your days. Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing. There is such a little time that your youth will last and you can never get it back.

- As we grow older, our memories are haunted by the exquisite temptations we hadn't the courage to yield to.

- The world is yours for a season. It would be tragic if you realized too late as so many others do that there is only one thing in the world worth having, and that is youth.

- Dorian Gray had never heard the praise of folly so eloquently expressed.

- The creed of pleasure soared into a philosophy of life while Dorian stood as if he were under a spell.

- He felt afraid of Lord Henry's ideas and ashamed of himself for being afraid.

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