The Short Stories Of Oscar Wilde

'You can have your secret as long as I have your heart,'

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

He fascinated everybody who was worth fascinating, and a great many people who were not.

Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed

Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.

Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic.

prosecuted for libel

With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

had withered away in the sombre splendour of the Spanish court