- A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect — simply a confession of failures.
- Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
- There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.
- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
- Those whom the gods love grow young.
- When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
- Who, being loved, is poor?
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves. From all let this be heard: some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss. the brave man with the sword.
- Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest “celebrities” of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years’ hard labour after being convicted of homosexual relationships, described as “gross indecency” with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry, never to return to Ireland or Britain.~ Wikipedia
- Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest “celebrities” of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years’ hard labour after being convicted of homosexual relationships, described as “gross indecency” with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry, never to return to Ireland or Britain.~ Wikipedia
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