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

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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1 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.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

2 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.

— Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield)

3 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.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

4 A man should live out his life fully and completely, give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

5 You oughtn't to express such a wish in the presence of that cat, Dorian. It's one of the 73 great gods of Egypt and is quite capable of granting your wish.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

6 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)

7 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)

8 She's a wonderful woman. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

9 You should look upon this tragedy as an episode in the wonderful spectacle of life.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

10 I adore simple pleasures. They're the last refuge of the complex.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

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