Oscar Wilde Quotes

“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?”
― Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.”
― Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde

“The italics are mine; but the suggestion was always implicit;”
― Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions