Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No one cares about distant relatives nowadays. They went out of fashion years ago.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
