Dorian Quotes

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

I left her in the forest of Arden

Very well.""Say it.""Say what?""Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.

They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began.

Chaol, " he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

I have no name, " she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.

He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.