Oscar Wilde said, "If this is the way" this queen "treats her convicts she doesn't deserve to have any"
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"A Criminal with a Noble Face": Oscar Wilde's Encounters with the ...  Yet Oscar Wilde also stood as a living challenge to Victorian society: he symbolically embodied an ... He said funny, outrageous things like "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to ...... As Wilde remarked to one of his guards, "Sir, if this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Oscar Wilde quotations famous witty - Age of the Sage  Oscar Wilde witty quotations: famous and familiar quotations from Oscar ... is followed by some very wise quotes from other persons than said Oscar Wilde. ... If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Oscar Wilde Gets Out by Elton John Songfacts  Standing handcuffed on his way to prison in the pouring rain he quipped, "If this is the way Queen Vic treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have any."
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Angels Biscuits; "Civilization is judged by prisoner treatment"  May 25, 2004 ... For a different slant on this particular saying, Oscar Wilde, as he was being sent to prison in 1895, said to the prison warden, "If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have any." quoted in...
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No Cause for Police Alarm - Libcom.org  Sep 5, 2016 ... ... other convicts, Oscar Wilde observed to the warder: "If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have any. ... If we get a confession, we beat it out of the guy, they say, and some shyster calls us...
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The Importance of Being Earnest - South Coast Repertory  Critic Ambrose Bierce's stinging denunciation ap- peared in ... That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde ..... part of the Sundance Playwrights Festival for ten.
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doc file  Another of Wilde's more introspective quotes comes from a play he wrote ... we fully enjoy it when Reginald says disrespectful things and Clovis interferes in...
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. - Oscar ...  He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. Oscar Wilde. Biography. Author Profession: Dramatist. Nationality: Irish. Born: October 16, 1854.
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A Woman of No Importance - Wikipedia  A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premired on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other...
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Famous Quotes by Famous Author's - Scribd  I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when .... The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ...... The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. ...... On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria.
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RPO -- Oscar Wilde : The Ballad of Reading Gaol - TSpace  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) .... 2.43The loftiest place is that seat of grace ... 2.69But we made no sign, we said no word, ..... 5.30 And the Warder is Despair.
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What does Sinclair's use of Oscar Wilde's 1898 poem The Ballad of ...  Aug 14, 2013 ... What does Sinclair's use of Oscar Wilde's 1898 poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Jail)" say about the value to society of placing a man in jail? ... And the Warder is Despair. So wrote a poet, ... As you can see from the words, Sinclair's use of this poem notes that jail doesn't help the man who is put there.
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I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation - Oscar Wilde  I can resist everything except temptation; Oscar Wilde quote on his liberal resistance threshold and the fuel running worldwide ... Voltaire once quipped:.
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25 of Oscar Wilde's Wittiest Quotes | Mental Floss  Oct 16, 2014 ... 4. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. 5. The only thing ... Work is the curse of the drinking classes. 12. .... "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all". ... It's also said that his last words were, "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.".
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How Did Prison Change Oscar Wilde? On De Profundis  Oct 13, 2015 ... Early in De Profundis, Wilde admiringly quotes his old Oxford don Walter ... his reading habits, but if he reads The Heir of Redclyffe it's perhaps as well to let ... up from his Irish parents' artistic interest in their country's folklore.
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Lord Alfred Douglas - Wikipedia  While in prison, Wilde wrote Douglas a long and critical letter titled De Profundis, describing exactly what he felt about him, which Wilde was not permitted to...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Preface  The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde, 1891. The Preface ... There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ... It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes by Oscar Wilde - Goodreads  1588 quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray: 'The books that the world calls immoral are books that ... There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
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Talk:Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote  A wise professor once told me that Oscar Wilde's last words were "This wallpaper is atrocious either it or I have to go .... "I can resist everything except temptation.
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Oscar Wilde  The Picture of Dorian Gray (Preface) | Genius  There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. ... The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde - BrainyQuote  "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde quotes from BrainyQuote.com.