I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No sooner, in fact, had I sent it off than a curious reaction came over me. It seemed to me that I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.… — 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
