Oscar Wilde Love Quotations

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

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

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

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

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.

What a fuss people make about fidelity! 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.

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion. . .

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

Love is easily killed.

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

A burnt child loves the fire.

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.

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! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

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.

Any place you love is the world to you.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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.

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.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

True friends stab you in the front.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

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

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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 does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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

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

A mutual misunderstanding.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Those whom the gods love grow young.