My Friendship with Oscar Wilde Quotes

“He (Wilde) did succeed in weaving spells. One sat and listened to him enthralled. It all appeared to be Wisdom and Power and Beauty and Enchantment... But a man who has broken loose from a spell cannot look back on the enchantment again and recapture the illusion of the shattered spell. He can only, as I do, remember that it was so, and wonder, and perhaps shudder a little.”
― Alfred B. Douglas, The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

“The average woman is far braver than the average man. The common kind of courage-that of the soldier who disregards the danger of death-belongs to the majority of men in the last resort. I mean that if it has to be exercised they exercise it without making a fuss about it. But when you come to moral courage it hardly exists at all among men. There is only one man in ten thousand who will brave the full violence of public opinion. Women, on the other hand, will often do it, if they are in love or to defend their children... The bravest men are those who have a good deal of woman about them.”
― Alfred B. Douglas, The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

“When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.”
― Alfred B. Douglas, The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

“I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.”
― Alfred B. Douglas, The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas