Oscar Wilde Quotes About Love
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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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.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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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.
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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.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
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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.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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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.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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