“But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.” — 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
“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
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is… — 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
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — 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
