The Aphorisms were published in 1904, four years after the author's death, and vividly capture the thought, spirit, and worldview of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

Verbal fireworks on life and art, women and love, morality and sin, pleasure and pain, subversive paradoxes that deconstruct all the situational lies, the aphorisms of the "cursed" Irishman, ostracized by society of his time, have lost nothing of their provocative and at times scandalous nature.