Dorian Quotes

#1. She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name." " 'Magnanimous Holiness'? Oh, I like that one." A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. What o'clock is it, Victor? asked Dorian Gray, sleepily.

Oscar Wilde

#3. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray

Stella Coulson

#4. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Rosamund Lupton

#6. people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

#7. Dorian looked down at the boy and felt the trapped leopard inside him rise in a protective crouch. Then I guess he stays with us. Welcome to DarkRiver, Keenan Aleine.

Nalini Singh

#8. Perhaps. I can understand wanting to kill the competetion, but to do it so viciously ... I hope it's nota a pattern."
Dorian's blood went a bit cold. "You think they'll try to kill Celaena?"
"I added some extra guards around her rooms."
"To protect her, or to keep her in?

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Dorian said, "So here we are." "The end of the road," Aelin said with a half smile. "No," Chaol said, his own smile faint, tentative. "The beginning of the next.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. She wouldn't have let him," Lucas said, touching Ashaya's face with his palm. It was a gesture of acceptance, as well as an alpha's offer of protection. "Dorian's mate is a strong woman.

Nalini Singh

#11. Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

Richelle Mead

#12. Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. Son or no son," the king snarled, "I am still your king. You will obey me, Dorian Havilliard, or you will pay. I'll have no more of your questioning.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Dorian, we get to come back from this loss - from this darkness. We get to come back, and I came back for you.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray."
"Dorian who?"
I sighed. "Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know."
"Sure thing, Gumdrop."
I grimaced. "I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#16. Now she had no choice about what she had to do. What she would do to protect Dorian. It was what she'd realized last night: she did have someone left - one friend. And there was nothing she wouldn't do to keep him safe.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Dorian panted, dropping his head to her shoulder, he
whispered, his voice gruff, "Will you be mine for all eternity?

Amanda J. Greene

#18. Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then,

Oscar Wilde

#19. No," I said softly, feeling all the energy run out of me. I was tired. So, so tired. "I don't want a war. I ... I can't unleash something like that."
Then, for the first time so far, Dorian spoke.
"I can," he said.

Richelle Mead

#20. But Dorian, tall, toned, and elegant, bore no resemblance to him. And then there was the matter of Dorian's sapphire eyes - not even his mother had his eyes. No one knew where they came from.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. paused for a moment, and a wild feeling of pity came over him. After all, what right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray? If he had done a tithe of what was rumoured about him, how much he must have suffered! Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, and stood there,

Oscar Wilde

#22. She was a beautiful wraith - and when she looked at him, it was like she didn't even know who he was. Dorian

Sarah J. Maas

#23. Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You'll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. No offense, Dorian. Oh, what the hell, take all the offense you want, it's not like I give a shit. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Andy Serkis

#26. Aelin was insane, Dorian realized. Brilliant and wicked, but insane.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Chinua Achebe

#28. Dorian surged from the chair and dropped to his knees beside the bed. He grabbed Chaol's hand, squeezing it as he pressed his brow against his. "You were dead," the prince said, his voice breaking. "I thought you were dead.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!

Sergei Lukyanenko

#30. No, the quest did not end here. Not even close. Dorian slid the keys into his pocket.

And the road that now sprawled before him, curving into unknown, awaiting shadow . . . it did not frighten him.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. Don't call her Tally in front of Clay", Dorian said, thinking of the small human female who loved Clay so desperately. "He's a little territorial."
Lucas's eyes flicked to Ashaya. "So are you."
Dorian wanted to bare his teeth, warn Lucas off against interfering. "Yeah, I am.

Nalini Singh

#32. What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Oscar Wilde

#33. experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions; and certainly Dorian Gray was a subject made to his hand, and seemed to promise rich and fruitful results. His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon

Oscar Wilde

#34. It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." "Dorian, this is

Oscar Wilde

#35. It was knowledge that could change everything. It could change the world. Dorian

Sarah J. Maas

#36. Everything- everything was for Dorian, for his friend. For himself, he had nothing left to lose. He was nothing more than a nameless oath-breaker, a liar, a traitor.

Sarah J. Maas

#37. I don't think I am heartless. Do you?'
'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.

Oscar Wilde

#38. 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.

Oscar Wilde

#39. Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

Oscar Wilde

#40. You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice.
"On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.

Richelle Mead

#41. Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, "We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up.

Karen Gammons

#42. Tammy's eyes widened. "Oh, my God, Dorian, it's not only lust, is it? You're starting to fall for her. She matters."
Tammy was wrong, Dorian thought, looking out and into the yard again.
The truth was, he'd already fallen for her.

Nalini Singh

#43. I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

Richelle Mead

#44. Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.

Sarah J. Maas

#45. I breathe you," Dorian answers with a sigh, finishing my thought. "You intoxicate me, Gabriella. I told
you that. Breathing you has become somewhat of an addiction for me.

S.L. Jennings

#46. You do not get to pick and choose which parts of her to love, Dorian had once said to him. He'd been right. So painfully right. Nesryn

Sarah J. Maas

#47. Dorian's going to love this."
She glared. "I swear to God, you tell him, and I'll" - what the hell could you threaten an alpha with? - "I'll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.

Nalini Singh

#48. This wasn't my plan." "I know," Dorian said with a half smile. "That's why you don't like it." Manon

Sarah J. Maas

#49. Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.

Shawn Ray

#50. His name was Dorian.
Dorian Havillard, and he was the Crown Prince of Adarlan.

Sarah J. Maas

#51. Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say.

Oscar Wilde

#52. What the ... ? "Holy S***! You're 250 years old!?"
He gives me a wink of his beautiful eye in response. "Surprised?"
"Um, hell yeah. Ok, that's pretty much disgusting. Chester the Molester. I've been screwing an ancient artefact!" Dorian & Gabriella

S.L. Jennings

#53. Dorian, I have wings!"
"I can see that."
"What am I?" I asked, as chills ran up my spine.
"I - I can't be positive, because I have never seen one. But I think you're a phoenix," he said in amazement. "You are so beautiful.

Karen Gammons

#54. Then Celaena and the King of Adarlan smiled at each other, and it was the most terrifying thing Dorian had ever seen.

Sarah J. Maas

#55. The renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and by a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jeweled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.

Oscar Wilde

#56. If it won't respond to humans, then it will have to be killed," Dorian said offhandedly, and a spark went through Celaena. "Kill it? Kill it? For what reason? What did it do to you?

Sarah J. Maas

#57. Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Richelle Mead

#58. You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.

Abed Yaman

#59. Dorian grunted, staring out at the forest. "Where's Sascha?"
"In the aerie."
"You left her alone?"
"As my mate would say- she's a cardinal, fully capable of protecting herself."
"So you left at least two others on watch."
"Of course I did.

Nalini Singh

#60. Your name is nothing, Your name is mine the demon hissed.
"what is your name."A command, not a question, as eyes of pure gold met his.
"Dorian," he breathed

Sarah J. Maas

#61. My name is Dorian Alexander, and this is a story about a girl who would change my life forever.

Carlos Dash

#62. But you Dorian, with your pure, bright, innocent face, and your marvelous untroubled youth - I can't believe anything against you.

Oscar Wilde

#63. You're not a restful individual to be around
Ashaya to Dorian

Nalini Singh

#64. 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Walton Goggins

#65. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde

#66. Monster. And yet ... For her friends, for her family, she would gladly be a monster. For Rowan, for Dorian, for Nehemia, she would debase and degrade and ruin herself.

Sarah J. Maas

#67. Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself.

Oscar Wilde

#68. They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity. The king standing before them gaped as the shield of flame died out to reveal Aelin and Dorian, hand in hand, glowing like newborn gods as their magic entwined.

Sarah J. Maas

#69. Kaltain Rompier had just turned the tide of this war.
Dorian had never been more ashamed of himself.
He should have been better. Should have seen better. They all should have.

Sarah J. Maas

#70. Nothing happened here, okay? None of this did."
His eyebrows rose. "Really? Because I could have sworn that something happened when my hand was between your - "
"No!"
- Dorian and Eugenie

Richelle Mead

#71. I'll come back," she said quietly. "I'll come back for you." And he knew that there was more that she wasn't saying, some bigger meaning behind those words.
But Dorian still believed her.

Sarah J. Maas

#72. A dream of form in days of thought'--who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.

Oscar Wilde

#73. "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle
it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E.B. White

#74. By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

#75. How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn's gift?"
"No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom's 'humble' gift.

Richelle Mead

#76. The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre ... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Plato

#77. Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Oscar Wilde

#78. that. As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me. You can't feel what I feel. You change

Oscar Wilde

#79. I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde

#80. Very well."
"Say it."
"Say what?"
"Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"
She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.

Sarah J. Maas

#81. He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, a book which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through a similar experience.

Oscar Wilde

#82. Dorian's scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn't think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now.

Melissa Grey

#83. You can run," Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his
expression, "but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

Nalini Singh

#84. Dorian Skotos became my savior in that moment, more so than he already was. And part of me - the Dark, ugly, abhorrent side - began to resent him for it.

S.L. Jennings

#85. He stepped forward and punched Dorian in the face, hard enough that I heard a thwack.
"Ow," moaned Dorian, wincing from the pain. "My greatest asset.

Richelle Mead

#86. Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.

Oscar Wilde

#87. Dorian has never killed anyone. Dorian didn't gut Archer Finn in the tunnels or torture and kill Grave and then chop him up into pieces. Dorian didn't go on a killing spree at Endovier that left dozens dead.

Sarah J. Maas

#88. Why are you sad, Dorian?"
He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

Nalini Singh

#89. This man," Dorian said, poking Kylar's chest, "and this one - " he poked Kylar's forehead - "are on their way to madness. Take it from one who knows.

Brent Weeks

#90. Fine, she wouldn't mind if Kaltain and Perrington met horrible deaths, but Dorian would be there. And Chaol.

Sarah J. Maas

#91. I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.

Anne Sexton

#92. Dorian?"
"Yeah?:
"I want my mummy in our web."
Dorian's heart kicked in his chest. "She will be." It was the one thing he wouldn't compromise on. And if that made him animal in his possessiveness, so be it.

Nalini Singh

#93. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.

Oscar Wilde

#94. The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good

Brent Weeks

#95. But she wasn't in love with him - Otho hadn't said that. He had seen no attachment on her part. And Celaena would never be that stupid. It was Dorian who was the fool - Dorian who would have his heart broken, if he did actually love her.

Sarah J. Maas

#96. Tell me - everything." So he did. About the hellfire, and the Wyrdhounds, and Lorcan. And then the past three days, of organizing and healing and Lysandra scaring the living shit out of everyone by shifting into a ghost leopard anytime one of Dorian's courtiers stepped out of line. When

Sarah J. Maas

#97. Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#98. It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#99. Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

Dorian Yates

#100. I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her.

Sarah J. Maas