Quotes of: Picturing Keyword

[Mortimer has just recovered the watch from Indio, which contains a picture of the woman that Indio raped] Monco: [peers at the picture] There seems to be a family resemblance. [He hands Mortimer the similar watch with the same picture he had taken e...

For a Few Dollars More

You can't fill your belly painting pictures of bread.

Chinese

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Seek

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

He lives the poetry that he cannot write; the others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

Robert Adams