There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Poor old Lord Mortlake, who had only two topics of conversation, his gout and his wife! I never could quite make out… — 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
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“That is just what I should like to marry. A thoroughly sensible wife would reduce me to a condition of absolute idiocy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious...How different… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. — 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
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.” — 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
