She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
Oscar WildeAll the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
Oscar WildeWe in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar WildeNow and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.
Oscar Wilde