Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Demimonde (2014)

Reeve Carney: Dorian Gray

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Quotes 

• [Dorian Gray asks Vanessa Ives if she's interested in botany] 

  Dorian Gray : Have you an interest in botany?

  Vanessa Ives : All I really seem to know about plants is how to kill them.

  Dorian Gray : Then let me show you something extraordinary. I like to see one extraordinary thing every day.

• [Dorian Gray shows Vanessa Ives a bundle of deadly nightshade flowers] 

  Vanessa Ives : Mmm, it's beautiful.

  Dorian Gray : You can do better. Give me words.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smells the flowers]  Delicate, subtle fragrance. Like a berry, but not a woodland thing. Not a thing of the forest, something... of the jungle.

  Dorian Gray : What does it say to you?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa continues smelling with her eyes closed]  Touch me. With your finger. Softly. My scent on your neck. Open your lips. Taste.

  Dorian Gray : [Vanessa opens her eyes as Dorian reveals the type of flowers they are]  Atropa Belladonna. Deadly nightshade.

• [Dorian Gray asks Vanessa Ives if it's the dark thing in a flower that's exciting] 

  Dorian Gray : It's the adder beneath the rose, isn't it? All of this. They can seem so exciting and luxurious, yet within, there's a dark thing waiting.

  Vanessa Ives : Things are so rarely what they seem.

  Dorian Gray : Which of us does not have our secrets, Miss Ives?

• [Dorian Gray shows Vanessa Ives the most rarest of all flowers, Rothschild's slipper] 

  Dorian Gray : Rothschild's slipper. The rarest orchid on Earth, and thus the most expensive. It's only found in one place, a particular mountain in Borneo. It can take up to 15 years to bloom. A lifetime for six perfect flowers.

  Vanessa Ives : How long will it bloom?

  Dorian Gray : A moment.

  Vanessa Ives : Is it poisonous?

  Dorian Gray : Like all beautiful things, I hope so.

• [Dorian Gray invites Ethan Chandler to go someplace with him] 

  Ethan Chandler : You ever wish you could be someone else? Just run away from your life?

  Dorian Gray : All the time. You want to be someone else? Comes with me.

  Ethan Chandler : Does it involve a drink?

  Dorian Gray : Many.

  Ethan Chandler : What about Miss Ives?

  Dorian Gray : She doesn't want to be anyone else.

• [Dorian Gray tells Ethan Chandler he doesn't believe to be repetitious] 

  Dorian Gray : Once you get used to something, why bother? It's just repetition.

  Ethan Chandler : [as Mr. Chandler notices Dorian's many colognes]  You like your cologne. How do you choose?

  Dorian Gray : Depends on how I feel. Or how I want to feel, I suppose. Different aromas make you feel differently, don't they? Citrus and sandalwood produce one thing. Musk and lavender another. Jasmine, mint. Each produces a different sensation. A different view.

  Ethan Chandler : Good for you.

• [Dorian Gray tells Ethan Chandler that he plays his part well] 

  Dorian Gray : You play your part to perfection, Mr. Chandler.

  Ethan Chandler : What part's that?

  Dorian Gray : Rude, mechanical. Rugged Westerner. But I suppose we all play parts.

  Ethan Chandler : What's yours?

  Dorian Gray : Human.

• [last lines] 

  Dorian Gray : [Dorian Gray plays a song for Ethan Chandler in his room of paintings as the two drink absinthe]  It's from Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde. Literally translated, it means 'Love-Death.'

  [when the two undress to the music and begin to kiss]