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

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

You can hear this line at 00:06:02.536 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- That depends on how you sit this afternoon.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

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.
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.
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.
You're going away tonight. The ship will take you far away over the dark waters. Don't let me remember you angry and troubled.
Was insincerity such a terrible thing? Dorian thought not. It was merely a method by which we could multiply our personalities.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Sound Clip

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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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