Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
"You do not, unless my memory is betraying me as usual, quite recollect the order of events just before the trial.

That day at the Cafe Royal, Wilde said he had come to ask you to go into the witness box next day and testify that _Dorian Gray_ was a highly moral work.
Your answer was something like this: 'For God's sake, man, put everything on that plane out of your head.

You don't realize what is going to happen to you.

It is not going to be a matter of clever talk about your books.

They are going to bring up a string of witnesses that will put art and literature out of the question.