Oscar Wilde Quotes About Marriage
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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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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.
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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.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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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.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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