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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Love - Page 2

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love, Funny, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Love, Funny, Relationship

Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

Who, being loved, is poor?

Love, Positive, Poverty

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Love, Inspirational, Men

"Two Society Comedies".

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Love, Mistake, Writing

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).

A mutual misunderstanding.

Love, Mutual, Misunderstanding

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Love, Life, Heartbreak

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Love, Marriage, Men

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Love, Husband, Real

Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.226, Oxford Paperbacks

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Love, Wedding, Hate

Oscar Wilde (2013). “De Profundis”, p.24, Courier Corporation

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Love, Men

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Love, Relationship, Anniversary

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Love, Men, People

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast”, p.29, Penguin UK

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Love, Funny, Humorous

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

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.

Love, Life, Breakup

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Love, Color, Green

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.950, Wordsworth Editions

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Love, Hate, Sick

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.328, Oxford University Press on Demand

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Love, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

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.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Love, Funny, Life

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.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love, Forgiving, Enough

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Love, Hearing, Relation

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19, Xist Publishing

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Love, Men, Bored

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Love, Passion, Age

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.46, Prestwick House Inc

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

Love, Passion, Mad

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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