Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

hope


Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

hope


Oscar Wilde

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

imagination


Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

learning


Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

life


Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

life


Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

life


Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

life


Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

life


Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

life


Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

life


Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

life


Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

life


Oscar Wilde

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

life


Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

life


Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

life


Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

life


Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

life


Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none.

life


Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

life


Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

love


Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

love


Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

love


Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

love


Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

love


Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

love


Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

love


Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

love


Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

love


Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

love


Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

love


Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.

love


Oscar Wilde

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.

marriage


Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

marriage


Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

marriage


Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

marriage


Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

marriage


Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

men


Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

men


Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

money


Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

money


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