When the young Oscar Wilde arrived in America for the first time with his first poetry collection, which was not particularly well received by critics, he answered the customs officer's question about whether he had anything to declare: "Only my genius, nothing more." Oscar Wilde was the embodiment of a witticism; he shocked and delighted his contemporaries with paradoxes that were often nothing more than premature truths of the future, which are much closer and more serious for us today than for the society that laughed at them. Wolfgang Kraus has sifted through Oscar Wilde's works to extract the best and most astonishing aphorisms. The result is a compendium for the dandy, for Wilde enthusiasts, and for anyone who thinks extravagantly.