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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Marriage

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Funny, Life, Marriage

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Funny, Marriage, Sexy

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Funny, Marriage, Couple

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Marriage, Bases, Mutual

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Happiness, Marriage, Men

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Funny, Marriage, Married

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Funny, Marriage, Wedding

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Marriage, Years, Romance

A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Marriage, Men, Agree

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Marriage, Society, Faces

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Marriage, Character, Opportunity

"The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Marriage, America, Now And Then

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.94, Wordsworth Editions

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Marriage, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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