Quotes About Sibyl Vane

#1. 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

#2. When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never.

Oscar Wilde

#3. It was to tell him that he was engaged to be married to Sibyl Vane.

Oscar Wilde

#4. His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

Oscar Wilde

#6. It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

Peter Blair Henry

#7. The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

Tippi Hedren

#9. The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

Kenneth Clark

#10. We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.

Ali Hewson

#11. The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.

Chester Bennington

#12. A lot of the children I photograph are extremely colorfully dressed in some way. But I also find a lot of kids with outsized personalities or who happen to be doing something charming.

Brandon Stanton

#13. My passion for fashion borders on insanity.

Isabella Blow

#14. I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Niall Horan

#15. I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Cherie Lunghi

#16. All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

Henry David Thoreau