Dorian Gray (2009)

Colin Firth: Henry Wotton

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Lord Henry Wotton : The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

• 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.

• Lord Henry Wotton : I suggest we raise a little hell.

• [last lines] 

  Lord Henry Wotton : Poor boy. Who can bear to look at you now?

• Lord Henry Wotton : I must ask you though, what is your secret?

  Dorian Gray : If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

• 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.

• Lord Henry Wotton : [about the painting]  It must be nearly finished, man. It isn't the Sistine Chapel.

• Lady Victoria Wotton : Harry, I've found some more guests for you to insult.

  Lord Henry Wotton : I knew I kept her for something.

• Lord Henry Wotton : Chin up, dear boy, you've a face like a slapped nancy.