The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray Beauty and appearance Flashcards
Quotes Beauty and appearance (20 cards)
“This young …”
“This young Adonis, who looks like he was made out of ivory and rose leaves … he is a narcissus”
“He stood gazing …”
“He stood gazing at the loveliness of his own reflection”
“He shuddered and felt …”
“He shuddered and felt afraid. And going back to the couch, lay here, staring at the picture in sickened horror”
“What the worm …”
“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. his sins would bar its beauty”
“For every sin …”
“For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its beauty”
“The mask of …”
“The mask of youth had saved him”
“With your pure …”
“With your pure, bright, innocent face … I can’t believe anything against you”
“Loathsome red …”
“Loathsome red dew that gleamed red and glistening on one of the hands”
“He loathed his own …”
“He loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on the floor, crushing it into silver silver splinters beneath his heel”
“Lying on the floor was a …”
“Lying on the floor was a dead man in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. he was withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage”
“The absolute eyelids …”
“The absolute eyelids folded over eyes that always disturbed m by their absolute absence of light, seemed to me like a mask”
“Your thin white …”
“Your thin, white face with its promise of debauchery”
“A young girl who looked like”
“A young girl who looked like she had been carved out of a single pearl”
“Her face was acquiring …”
“Her face was acquiring instead of beauty, a lacquer of invincible prettiness that characterizes certain, pampered, exquisite, expensive cats”
“All I saw was a …”
“All I saw was a pale, hollow-eyed girl whom I scarcely recognized “
“Each stroke of… “
“Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin … and left behind was a nascent patina of shining furs”
“White skin …”
“White skin, red mouth, black hair and stark naked”
“She is so beautiful …”
“She is so beautiful she is unnatural, her beauty is a deformity, an abnormality”
“Eyes that deny… “
“Eyes that deny all the erotic promises of her body”
“Devastating …”
“Devastating eyes as red as a wound”
