Quotes from Oscar Wilde

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.