Oscar Wilde (1960)

Ralph Richardson: Sir Edward Carson

Quotes 

• Sir Edward Carson : This, Mr. Wilde, is the magazine The Chameleon. You've read the story "The Priest and The Acolyte"?

  Oscar Wilde : Yes.

  Sir Edward Carson : Was not the story that of a scandal about a priest and a boy who served him there at the altar?

  Oscar Wilde : I read the story only once many months ago and nothing would induce me to read it again.

  Sir Edward Carson : You thought it immoral?

  Oscar Wilde : It was worse, it was badly written.

• Sir Edward Carson : And, so far as Lord Queensbury is concerned, he withdraws nothing. From the beginning to the end, the father has been influenced by one hope alone, that of saving his son, at all risks and hazards to himself. And for that, Mr Oscar Wilde attempts to send the father to gaol, to brand him as a criminal, but as my learned friend has said, we shall see.