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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Love

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.204, Wordsworth Editions

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.452, Wordsworth Editions

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.144, Penguin

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.75, eBookIt.com

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.51, BoD – Books on Demand