172 Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde on love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde on love

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde on love

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.
Oscar Wilde on marriage

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde on marriage

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde on marriage

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

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

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

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

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