The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems Quotes

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“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

“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

“And each man kills the thing he loves.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“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

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long broken run,
For his mourners will he outcast men
And outcasts always mourn.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“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

“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

“And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is pitiless and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“The vilest deeds like poison weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,
And the Warder is Despair.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“That each prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.

With bars that blur the gracious moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“So never will wine-red rose or white
Petal by petal, fall
On that stretch of mud and sand that lies
By the hideous-prison-wall,
To tell the men who tramp the yard
That God's Son died for all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“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, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“For where a grave has opened wide,
There was no grave at all:
Only a stretch of mud and sand
By the hideous prison-wall,
And a little heap of burning lime,
That the man should have his pall.

For he has a pall, this wretched man,
Such a few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!

And all the while the burning lime
Eats flesh and bone away,
It eats the brittle bone by night,
And the soft flesh by day,
It eats the flesh and bone by turns,
But it eats the heart alway.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“At last I saw the shadowed bars
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's dreadful dawn was red.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“And twice a day he smoked his pipe,
And drank his quart of beer:
His soul was resolute, and held
No hiding place for fear;
He often said that he was glad
The hangman's day was near.

But why he said so strange a thing
No warder dared to ask:
For he to whom a watcher's doom
Is given as his task,
Must set a lock upon his lips
And make his face a mask.

Or else he might be moved, and try
To comfort or console:
And what should Human Pity do
Pent up in Murderer's Hole?
What word of grace in such a place
Could help a brother's soul?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“A prison wall was round us both,
Two outcast men we were:
The world has thrust us from its heart,
And God from out His care:
And the iron gin that waits for Sin
Had caught us in its snare.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

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

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

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long broken urn,
For his mourners will he outcast men
And outcasts always mourn”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each 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!  ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems