Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Oscar WildeMan is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar WildeWhen a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
Oscar WildeI am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
Oscar Wilde