25 Movie Quotes about Hedonism (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about hedonism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

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

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

22 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.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

23 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.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

24 Still, one has a right to judge a man by the effect he has on his friends. Yours seem filled with an insatiable madness for pleasure.

Lowell Gilmore as Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

25 He lived only for pleasure, but his greatest pleasure was to observe the emotions of his friends while experiencing none of his own.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)