The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray Corruption Flashcards
Quotes - corruption (27 cards)
“Don’t spoil …”
“Don’ spoil him, don’t try to influence him, your influence would be bad”
“Be always …”
“Be always searching for new sensations, be afraid of nothing, a new hedonism”
“He stood …”
“He stood, gazing at the shadow of his own loveliness”
“If it were I who was …”
“If it was I who was to be always young, and the picture was to grow old! for that I would give everything! I would give my soul for that”
“I felt that this grey …”
“I felt that this grey monstrous London of ours, with its myriad of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins must have in store for me”
“He felt keenly …”
“He felt keenly the terrible pleasures of a double life”
“Sin is a …”
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face”
“If a wretched man has a vice …”
“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of the mouth, the droop of his eyelids”
“You have gone from …”
“You have gone from corruption to corruption and now you have culminated in crime”
“You have filled them …”
“You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You have led them there”
“The coarse bloated …”
“The coarse, bloated hands of the portrait … the misshapen body and the failing limbs”
“He rushed at him and …”
“He rushed at him and dug the knife into the great vein that is behind the ear, crushing the man’s head down on the table, and stabbing again and again”
“You poisoned …”
“You poisoned me with a book once”
“Nothing but my …”
“Nothing but my scarlet palpitating core remained” TBC
“My little …”
“My little nun has found the prayer books” TBC
“A sleepless companion …”
“A sleepless companion, my dark, newborn curiosity” TBC
“I longed …”
“I longed for him and he disgusted me” TBC
“I took the forbidden …”
“I took the forbidden key from the heap and left the others lying there” TBC
“Every time I struck a match …”
“Every time I struck a match, it seemed a garment of that innocence of mine fell away” TBC
“A room designed for …”
“A room designed for desecration and some dark night of unimaginable lovers whose embrace was annihilation” TBC
“No paint nor …”
“No paint nor powder, no matter how thick or white could hide that red mask on my forehead; I am glad he cannot see it … because it spares my shame” TBC
“She smiled at …”
“She smiled at herself in the mirror a little too often” TCOML
“Her face was acquiring …”
“Her face was acquiring instead of beauty, a lacquer of the invincible prettiness that characterizes certain pampered, exquisite, expensive cats” TCOML
“The Erl Kin will …”
“The Erl king will do you grievous harm” TEK
