Lord Alfred Douglas

“Oscar Wilde was the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last three hundred and fifty years.”

“For I have made a sorry wedding-guest, O Love, my master, in thy banquet-hall.”

“The post of Poet Laureate should be abolished. It is a ridiculous post.”

“I am the love that dare not speak its name.”

“What is a sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell that murmurs of the far-off murmuring sea.”

“The sin was mine, I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to feel that it is in a constant state of pain.”

“Of all sweet passions, love is the most sweet.”

“Stolen sweets are best.”

“The dead are pitying us, who are the dead.”

“I have been the victim of the most appalling conspiracies.”

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”

“Beauty is the salt of the earth. Without it, the world would be a desolate and barren place.”

“I am so tired of all the happy men.”

“All my life I have been the prey of a relentless and insatiable vanity.”