“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Men always want to be woman's first love - women like to be men's last romance” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance? — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gwendolen, from The Importance of Being Earnest I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between… — Oscar wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — 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
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — 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
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the… — 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
