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I pictured somebody with spectacles and lank hair tramping about on huge feet, and so I avoided meeting him.

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:56.200 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Harry, I despise your principles, but I do enjoy the way you express them.

- I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

- Now I remember.

- Remember what, Harry?

- Where I heard the name of Dorian Gray.

- Where was it?

- Well, don't look so startled. It was at my Aunt Agatha's.

- My aunt told me that she had discovered a wonderful young man who was going to help with her charities and that his name was Dorian Gray.

- I pictured somebody with spectacles and lank hair tramping about on huge feet, and so I avoided meeting him.

- That's a very common type of butterfly. Limenitis sibylla. It hardly belongs in a gentleman's garden.

- I'm glad you didn't meet Dorian Gray.

- Why?

- I don't want you to meet him.

- Who's that at your piano, Basil?

- You've come early today, Dorian.

- Have I?

- You must lend me these pieces, Basil. I want to learn them.

[...]

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Sound Clip

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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