Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a… — 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
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — 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
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
“The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the… — 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
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — 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
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
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. — 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
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
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
“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
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
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. — 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
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
