Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. – 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. – Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – 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. – Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. – Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. – Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love. – Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young. – Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde
