Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber — 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
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — 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
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
