Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)

Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

one! To note the curious hard logic of passion, and the emotional coloured life of the intellect—to observe where they met, and where they separated, at what point they were in unison, and at what point they were at discord—there was a delight in that! What matter what the cost was? One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

"Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

Don't squander the gold of your days,