- 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.
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.
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- 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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