Quote by Oscar Wilde
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all tha

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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Investment
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. – Oscar Wilde

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Life
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Prison
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Prison

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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Prison

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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Prison

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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. – Paulo Coelho

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Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. – Anon.

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