The book contains more than 1,300 phrases of the great wit Oscar Wilde - about life and death, about men and women, about clothes and fashion, about art, religion, history and politics. Many of them are being published in Russian for the first time, including Wilde's "Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated" and aphorisms from Wilde's rough notebooks. "He was probably the greatest master of conversation who ever lived, not excluding Socrates, who lacked Wilde's sense humor.” Compiled by: Konstantin Dushenko.