The Picture Of Dorian Gray 4

"'A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"' (84)

Here Lord Henry is saying that the prefect pleasure is on that leaves you unsatisfied and in a way that makes sense. Like with a cigarette, people get a pleasure out of smoking one, and it is a good feeling, but even after having one, they still want more and more. Just one does not satisfy someone, so they need more and more, therefore they experience the pleasure more and more. If just one cigarette left you completely satisfied, it would not really be a pleasure because you can only experience it once, because people want to indulge in pleasures as much as they can, so a cigarette is a type of a perfect pleasure because you can experience more than once, and have that pleasure more than once.

"'When we are happy we are good, but when we are good we are not always happy"' (82)

Here Lord Henry is stating that whenever we are happy, we are good, we have done good things, and been a good person and made ourselves happy, but when we are always good and always doing good things, we are not always happy because sometimes always doing the right thing is boring. Always being good, and always doing the right thing can sometimes have a negative affect on people because they can have no excitement or adventure in their lives so therefore they are not always happy.

querulously - full of complaints; complaining.

"'I don't know how we could manage without him,' answered the elderly woman, querulously" (64)

incorrigible - impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly

"'You are quite incorrigible, Harry; but I don't mind"' (81)