Top 34 Gaol Quotes
#1. When we don't give ourselves fully to the work we were born to do, we do the world - and ourselves - a disservice.
Jeff Goins
#2. I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
Edan Lepucki
#3. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#4. I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
Marie Lu
#5. It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.
Christos Tsiolkas
#6. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Oscar Wilde
#7. As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
Paul Auster
#8. But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
Are what they give us there:
For flowers have been known to heal
A common man's despair.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms. Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol
Mark Simpson
#10. You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,' Miss Haxby said, after a moment. 'But our ways at Millbank - as you can see - are rather narrow ones.
Sarah Waters
#11. Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.
Graham Greene
#12. When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Lady Gregory
#13. I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
#14. Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)
Immanuel Kant
#15. gaol of her closed bedroom door. 'I was only
Kate Morton
#16. Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.
Clive James
#17. Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.
Chris Oyakhilome
#18. I believe you're speaking English, Turner, but I'm not sure you're doing a good job of it. It makes a girl wonder what you meant by, 'Here, let me take you to gaol.'" "I always mean precisely what I say, even if I don't say precisely what I
Courtney Milan
#19. A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.
Samuel Johnson
#20. [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis , has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.
Godfrey Higgins
#21. When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:
'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?'
'I am sorry ... I fear not.'
'You see where you are now!
Charles Ricketts
#22. The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
Colin Wilson
#23. We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.
Catherine Of Genoa
#24. Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads.
Mark Forsyth
#25. Don't you think that queer? That a common coarse-featured woman might drink morphia and be sent to gaol for it, while I am saved and sent to visit her - and all because I am a lady?
Sarah Waters
#27. I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
Babe Ruth
#28. Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his path
And cleanse his soul from sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
#29. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
Mitch Daniels
#30. In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory
#31. For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker.
Metta World Peace
#32. Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
Clive James
#33. Sometimes people aren't hating on you. Because they feel a certain way about themselves, they just don't know how to be happy for you.
Yvonne Pierre
#34. Tha gaol agam ort," he whispered against her lips.
Trulie smiled against his mouth. "I love you too," she whispered back.
Maeve Greyson
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