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Romance Quotes by Oscar Wilde

55 Romance quotes by Oscar Wilde

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To love oneself is called the beginning of a lifelong romance, a theme that runs through many of the quotes. They contrast men’s desire to be a first love with women’s wish to be a last romance, and they note that humor can spoil romance. The setting of Venice or Oxford is painted as a perfect backdrop.

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“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.”

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

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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Love toward yourself is the romance that lasts a lifetime.

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“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.”

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“Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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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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“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”

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

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Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a…

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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the…

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the…

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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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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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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“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between…

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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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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the…

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“It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted.…

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of…

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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,…

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“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about…

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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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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of…

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time…

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal…

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about…

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

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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“Men always want to be woman's first love - women like to be men's last romance”

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

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

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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“very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.”

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“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what…

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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.”

Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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…