--- title: "8 Young man Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "8 Young man quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Young man sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/oscar-wilde-16_admire_i-think-it-is-perfectly-natural-for-any_267686.jpg" --- > [I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-think-it-is-perfectly-natural-for-any-artist-to-admire-intensely/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/oscar-wilde-16_admire_i-think-it-is-perfectly-natural-for-any_267686.jpg) > [Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/oscar-wilde-was-suing-the-marquis-of-queensbury-in-1895-for-libel/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89f/oscar-wilde-16_accusing_oscar-wilde-was-suing-the-marquis-of-que_589557.jpg) > [“Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/suddenly-i-found-myself-face-to-face-with-the-young-man-whose/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/oscar-wilde-16_face-to-face_suddenly-i-found-myself-face-to-face-wit_769053.jpg) > [“Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/dorian-gray-frowned-and-turned-his-head-away-he-could-not-help-liking/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ab/oscar-wilde-16_young-man_dorian-gray-frowned-and-turned-his-head_941197.jpg) > [“No sooner, in fact, had I sent it off than a curious reaction came over me. It seemed to me that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/no-sooner-in-fact-had-i-sent-it-off-than-a-curious-reaction-came-over/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0d/oscar-wilde-16_faith_no-sooner-in-fact-had-i-sent-it-off-than_1287392.jpg) > [“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/in-the-centre-of-the-room-clamped-to-an-upright-easel-stood-the-full/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a14/oscar-wilde-16_art_in-the-centre-of-the-room-clamped-to-an_1933501.jpg) > [LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/lady-bracknell-algernon-is-an-extremely-i-may-almost-say-an/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/oscar-wilde-16_desire_lady-bracknell-algernon-is-an-extremely_1944951.jpg) > [“Credit is a young man's capital.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/credit-is-a-young-man-s-capital/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/oscar-wilde-16_capital_credit-is-a-young-man-s-capital-3178212_3178212.jpg) ## Other authors on Young man ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/young-man/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "8 Young man Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. 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