I am covered with fine gold," said the Prince, "you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor. Author: Oscar Wilde Copy Quote More from Oscar Wilde “Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imaginat…” “To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, …” “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” “Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue ar…”