Dorian Gray (2009)
Colin Firth: Henry Wotton
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Quotes
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Lord Henry Wotton : There's no shame in pleasure. Man just wants to be happy. But society wants him to be good. And when he's good, he's rarely happy. But when he's happy, he's always good.
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Lord Henry Wotton : What are you?
Dorian Gray : I am what you made me! I lived the life that you preached but never dared practice. I am everything that you were too afraid to be.
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Dorian Gray : [On a girl he saw, who just departed with a man] That was probably her husband.
Lord Henry Wotton : Yes, very sensible. People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
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Emily Wotton : I hope I'm not interrupting your reminiscence?
Lord Henry Wotton : One charm of the past, is that it's the past.
Emily Wotton : Hmm... I hope you're not also a dreary old cynic?
Dorian Gray : What is there to believe in?
Emily Wotton : Our developments.
Dorian Gray : All I see is decay.
Emily Wotton : For the religion!
Dorian Gray : Fashionable substitute for belief.
Emily Wotton : Art?
Dorian Gray : A malady.
Emily Wotton : Love?
Dorian Gray : An illusion.
Lord Henry Wotton : Bravo!
Emily Wotton : Well... you both cut the world to pieces, don't you? Thank you for the cigarette!
Dorian Gray : Unusual woman.
Lord Henry Wotton : She ought to be... she's my daughter.
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Lord Henry Wotton : The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Dorian Gray : [trying to decline women and drink at a brothel] Well, perhaps I have a stronger conscience.
Lord Henry Wotton : [dismissively] 'Conscience.' It's just a polite word for 'cowardice.' No civilized man regrets a pleasure.
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Lord Henry Wotton : I suggest we raise a little hell.
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[last lines]
Lord Henry Wotton : Poor boy. Who can bear to look at you now?
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Lord Henry Wotton : I must ask you though, what is your secret?
Dorian Gray : If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
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Lord Henry Wotton : The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Lord Henry Wotton : [about the painting] It must be nearly finished, man. It isn't the Sistine Chapel.
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Lady Victoria Wotton : Harry, I've found some more guests for you to insult.
Lord Henry Wotton : I knew I kept her for something.
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Lord Henry Wotton : Chin up, dear boy, you've a face like a slapped nancy.