“But I didn’t say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a woman marries againit is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out. — 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
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“CHASUBLE: Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not? JACK: Oh yes. MISS PRISM: [Bitterly.] People who live entirely for pleasure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
