- 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)
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.
Quote context
[...]
- 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 wish you would tell me how to become young again.
- Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?
- Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
- But surely if one lives for oneself, one pays a terrible price for doing so.
- Yes, we're overcharged for everything nowadays.
- One has to pay in other ways than money.
- What sort of ways, Sir Thomas?
- I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in... Well, in the consciousness of degradation.
[...]
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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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