I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — 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
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 world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. — 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
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
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about… — 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
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
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — 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
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — 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