This newspaper illustration mocked Oscar-the-aesthete
during his travels in America’s rough-and-tumble West.
Cowboys didn’t much care for Oscar.
I wonder why…
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde
Phrases and Philosophies
for the Use of the Young, 1882
– Oscar Wilde
Phrases and Philosophies
for the Use of the Young, 1882
“We teach people how to remember,
we never teach them how to grow.”
– Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered
before Columbus, but it had always
been hushed up.
– Oscar Wilde
before Columbus, but it had always
been hushed up.
– Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays most people die
of a sort of creeping common sense,
and discover when it is too late
that the only things one never
regrets are one’s mistakes”
regrets are one’s mistakes”
– Oscar Wilde
“To get back my youth
I would do anything in the world,
except take exercise,
get up early,
or be respectable.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If you want to tell people the truth,
make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
– Oscar Wilde