Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death Quotes

“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

“The newspapers of today chronicle with degrading avidity the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatever. I must give them up.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

“The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one’s own.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

“When men give up saying what is charming,” Oscar answered, “they give up thinking what is charming. I hope I’ll never do that.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

“As you will be aware, gentlemen, I have made it my life’s work to entertain the working classes, enrage the middle classes, and fascinate the aristocracy—but I do believe I’ve just met my match. Accrington ’Arry here is in a class of his own, beyond my reach.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

“You’ll recall,” said Sickert, brushing dust from his trousers with the back of his hand, “that a year or two ago I was chased through the back streets of King’s Cross by a posse of prostitutes all crying ‘Jack the Ripper!’ after me.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

“I mean it,' said Bosie seriously. 'I'd like to murder him, in cold blood.'
'Well, you can't, Bosie,' said Oscar, 'leastways, not tonight.'
'Why not?' demanded Bosie petulantly.
'It's Sunday, Bosie,' said Oscar, 'and a gentleman never murders his father on a Sunday. You should know that. Did they teach you nothing at Winchester?”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death