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Ten Dandyish Outfits of Oscar Wilde.

*Courtesy of Richard Ellmann's Biography of the same.

1. His school uniform consisted of scarlet and lilac shirts.
2. At Trinity he liked to wear tweeds of huge checks with bird's-eye blue ties, high collars and roll-brimmed hats sitting, cocked, on one ear. I am always admiring of someone who pulls off the right combinato of brown and blue. When you get it right it a magnificent thing—like the right yellow and grey. Believe me, I used to be a colour consultant.
3. To a party he once wore a tailcoat that was shaped and styled to look like a cello. I reckon that would make your bottom look large. It's not a piece I'll be emulating soon.

Ten Fabulous Quotes from Lord Henry Wotton

* From Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

1. ... the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
2. ... she is a peacock in everything but beauty.
3. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
4. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
5. The only way to get rid of a tempation is to yield to it.
6. To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
7. She was a curious woman whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.
8. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say but they say it charmingly.
9. When one is on love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
10. Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.