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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems QUOTES

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems QUOTES

1 " For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

2 " some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with the hands of lust,
some with the hands of gold:
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE, because
THE DEAD SO SOON GROW COLD. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

3 " A pesar de todo, cada hombre mata lo que ama, Para cada uno, oigan esto, Algunos lo hacen con una mirada amarga, Algunos con una palabra adulatoria, El cobarde lo hace con un beso, ¡El hombre valiente con una espada! "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

4 " And each man kills the thing he loves. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

5 " The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. The great majority of people being fully aware of this, rank themselves naturally on the side of that splendid system that elevates them to the dignity of machines, and rage so wildly against the intrusion of the intellectual faculty into any question that concerns life, that one is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

6 " So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail,
And all my sweetest singing out of tune. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

7 " He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the changeling Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems