Quotessence
Home / Books / De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Book by Oscar Wilde · 8 quotes · Companionship, Conversation, People

Filter quotes by topic

AllCompanionshipConversationPeopleRelationshipStrangeAcquittalAnticipateBasesBelieveBest MarriageBitsBuildingCeilingsChapelChristChurchClientsCollegeCommonConfusion

De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings Quotes

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

PeopleTwoDifferentCultureLevelsCommonRelationshipConversationBasesCompanionshipLowestDifferent Cultures
Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
Create image

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

FriendshipMarriageRelationshipConversationConfusionCompanionshipMarriage AdviceFriendship MemoriesHappy MarriagePositive MarriageGreat MarriageInspiring FriendsWedding MarriageInspirational MarriageBest MarriageLasting MarriageMarriage ProblemsHappy RelationshipMarriage SpeechRelationship ProblemEncouraging MarriageHappy Marriage AdviceHappy Couple
Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
Create image

“The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.”

PeopleWorldBelieveDoePurposeDiesLiteratureNovelStrangeProductsPagesRoseEnthusiasmCopiesMelancholyStakesMartyrPalacesAnticipatePuppetsMouldDebrisNihilist
Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
Create image

“Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.”

LittlesMatterLyingLeftVoiceChristChurchWatchesEnvironmentFansBuildingCollegeStrangeSingingGoldGreenWanderProfessorsTowersGreyCeilingsNoonMeadowsOxfordLovelinessGatewaysFlutesDullnessChapelTutorStaircasesGildedVoice Singing
Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
Create image