- I wish you would tell me how to become young again.
- Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?
- A great many, I fear.
- Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

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

You can hear this line at 00:26:32.284 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I'm vexed with you, Harry. Why do you try to persuade Mr. Gray to give up the East End?

- He's a wonderful musician, and they love his playing.

- The East End is a very important problem.

- Quite so. It's the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.

- I suspect we're interested in the poor in order to amuse ourselves. Especially as we grow older and are unfit for other amusements.

- I wish you would tell me how to become young again.

- Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?

- A great many, I fear.

- Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

- A delightful theory.

- A dangerous theory.

- One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

- But surely if one lives for oneself, one pays a terrible price for doing so.

- Yes, we're overcharged for everything nowadays.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

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.
If only the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now. For that I would give everything. Yes, there's nothing in the whole world I would not give. I would give my soul for that.
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.
I always choose my friends for their good looks and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
Why was he unhappy? -Perhaps because he felt his youth slipping away from him.

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