I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it. — 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
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some six weeks ago I was allowed by the doctor to have white bread to eat instead of the coarse black or… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at… — 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
