“You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share