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Love Quotes by Oscar Wilde

301 Love quotes by Oscar Wilde

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A mirror reflecting self‑love reminds us that caring for ourselves is the first romance. The quotes compare how men and women view love as a first or last adventure, and they say love often feels like a funny mistake that still matters. They also tell us to look for beauty before we judge.

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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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One should always be in love.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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Most people are other people.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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Only love can keep anyone alive...

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Love is easily killed.

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“And each man kills the thing he loves.”

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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“Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost”

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“Women give to men the very gold of their loves.”

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

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“I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you”

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

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weepswhen there is nothing at all toweep about.

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“From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it…

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“Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

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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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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.”

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“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own…

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“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and…

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“I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to…

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some…

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“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is…

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had…

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Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on…

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“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to…

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“Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the…

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“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight,…

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“The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals?…

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some…

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“The Little Ship Have your forgotten the ship love I made as a childish toy, When you were a little girl love,…

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as…

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a…

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

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

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…