The Ballad Of Reading Gaol Quotes

#1. Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Rick Santorum

#5. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

Mary Shelley

#6. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Helen Fielding

#7. 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

#8. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique sacro.]

Horace

#9. Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

Amanda Palmer