The picture of dorian gray homosexuality quotes

"You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet -- we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's -- we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most earnest faces. My wife is very good at it -- much better, in fact, than I am. She never gets lost over her dates, and I always do. But when she does locate me out, she makes no row at all. I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me." ()

"I believe that if one man were to reside out his life fully and completely,

Dorian Gray Love Quotes

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they can quickly take away. You have only a several years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more acrimonious than defeats. Every month as it wanes brings you nearer to something dreadful. Time is insecure of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly.

&#; Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 2. Lord Henry continues to feed Dorian&#;s vanity about his physical attractiveness. He talks about the fleeting character of beauty, warning that when his youth goes his beauty will travel with it. Dorian does have such fears, and in a bid to preserve his beauty at all costs they will drive him to barter his soul for everlasting youth. Lilies and roses are metaphors for Dorian&#;s beauty and his abili

Introduction

In the first scene of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (), the painter Basil Hallward confesses to his companion Lord Henry Wotton why he cannot exhibit the portrait of the eponymous hero. Basil admits, ‘Where there is merely adoration, they would see something sinister, where there is spectacular love, they would suggest something vile’ (Wilde, – 21). This noticeable line, among many others that carry homoerotic innuendos, never appears in print. It is excised during Oscar Wilde’s revision process, along with other suggestions of homoeroticism between the three main characters of the story. The textual scholarship on this revision process generally agrees that Wilde neutralizes this homoeroticism by transforming Dorian from an erotic oppose into an aesthetic object. In particular, Nicolas Ruddick argues that Wilde aestheticizes Dorian in direct to emphasize a moral about the dangers of vanity at the expense of another, more covert moral about the liberalization of homosexuality. Ruddick explains that, while the moral about vanity ‘dramatize[s] the disastrous consequence