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Prison Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the…
- The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
- I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
- ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That…
- I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming…
- I am happy in my prison of passion
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