Quotes About Reading Oscar Wilde

#1. What you read when you don't have to ...

Oscar Wilde

#2. My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with.

Morley

#3. 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

#4. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I believe that you need to be the person you are and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want something, go out and get it. Follow your dreams, and never give up!

Faith Hill

#6. 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

#7. Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer

#8. We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.

Hakan Nesser

#9. 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

#10. You fellas don' know what you're doin. You're helpin to starve kids ... You don' know what you're a' doin'.

John Steinbeck

#11. The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

Julio Cortazar

#12. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

Oscar Wilde

#13. There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Murray Kempton

#14. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde

#15. It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

#17. I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Oscar Wilde

#18. If a book isn't worth reading over and over again, it isn't worth reading at all.

Oscar Wilde

#19. The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Meg Wolitzer

#20. When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

John Tesh

#21. I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.

Serinda Swan

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.

Romario

#26. I feel your lips on me, Eden. When I close my eyes, when I'm awake. I taste you. You are my first breath, and my last. I feel you.

Mia Sheridan

#27. You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

Oscar Wilde

#28. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

#29. You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.

Toba Beta

#30. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Noel Coward