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“Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.”

Oscar Wilde Requiescat

Requiescat, st. 1 (1881)

“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. III, st. 29
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Jack, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere, Act IV
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. V, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. III, st. 35
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres. <br class="br">Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in letter by Gide to his mother (30 January 1895); popularized by Gide and often subsequently quoted in Gide’s later work and in "Gide, André (1869-1951)" at Standing Ovations http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/g/gide.htm; the conversation was again recalled in Gide’s journal of (3 July 1913), quoted in “André Gide’s ‘Hommage à Oscar Wilde’ or ‘The Tale of Judas’”, Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK), Chapter 5 in [Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe], edited by Stefano Evangelista (8 July 2010) part of a Continuum series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, ISBN 978-1-84706005-1, pp. 98–99 http://books.google.com/books?id=-oBmdCTSJ5IC&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q=%22I%20put%20all%20my%20genius%22, also footnote 6 (p. 99), quoting 1996 edition of Gide’s journal, pp. 746–47]

“Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.”

Oscar Wilde, 1897, | Hart-Davis, ed., Letters of Wilde, p. 173 https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/19170/UBC_1974_A8%20S88.pdf

“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Mabel Chiltern, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.”

Written in a letter from Reading Prison to Lord Alfred Douglas in early 1897

“Your days are your sonnets.”