59 Quotes by Oscar Wilde (Sound Clips) - page 2

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11 The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is the caprice lasts a little longer.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

12 As I grow old, this picture will remain always young. If it were only the other way. If it were I who was always to be young and the picture that was to grow old.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

13 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.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

15 What did the music mean to you? -I don't know. It is full of emotion. But it's not happy. -No, it's not happy.

Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

16 Why was he unhappy? -Perhaps because he felt his youth slipping away from him.

Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

17 Punctuality is the thief of time, Harry says.

Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

18 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.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

19 One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

20 No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

59 Quotes by Oscar Wilde (Sound Clips) - page 2

11 The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is the caprice lasts a little longer.

12 As I grow old, this picture will remain always young. If it were only the other way. If it were I who was always to be young and the picture that was to grow old.

13 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.

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

15 What did the music mean to you? -I don't know. It is full of emotion. But it's not happy. -No, it's not happy.

16 Why was he unhappy? -Perhaps because he felt his youth slipping away from him.

17 Punctuality is the thief of time, Harry says.

18 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.

19 One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

20 No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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