The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Quotes with Sound Clips - Page 6

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Poster

Memorable quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film, based on Oscar Wilde's novel), with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: George Sanders (Lord Henry Wotton), Hurd Hatfield (Dorian Gray), Lowell Gilmore (Basil Hallward), Angela Lansbury (Sibyl Vane), Donna Reed (Gladys Hallward)

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51 You forget that I am married and that the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary to both parties.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

52 You have an intellectual expression, and intellect destroys the beauty of any face.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

53 Every experience is of value. And whatever can be said against marriage, it's certainly an experience.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

54 I am analysing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

55 I can't see why you should blame yourself. I suppose you had a quarrel and she foolishly thought she'd lost you. But no woman destroys herself who isn't already unbalanced.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

56 You were right. There can be something fatal about a portrait.

Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield)

57 You will discover that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

58 Your clock thinks it's time for me to go home. -Clocks can't help being disagreeable. They think it's their duty.

Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury)

59 He found reasons to justify his actions. He told himself that man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations. To live a simple, sincere, honest life was hardly to live at all.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

60 Henceforth, I shall live only for pleasure. Everything else is meaningless.

Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield)

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