It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

---The Critic as Artist.

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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman -or the want of it in the

man.

---A Woman of No Importance.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

…not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Love can canonize people. The saints are those who have been most loved.

---Letter to Robert Ross, May 28th 1897.

If one really loves a woman, all other women in the world become absolutely meaningless to one.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

---The Nightingale and the Rose.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.love and gluttony justify everything.

---In Conversation.

Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the poor.

---The Model Millionaire.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about things: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

---A Woman of No Importance.

Any place you love is the world to you… but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.The Remarkable Rocket.One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

---In Conversation.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

---In Conversation.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

When one is in love one begins by deceiving one-self. And ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

---A Woman of No Importance.

DUCHESS OF MONMOUTH:…We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Mrs. ALLONBY: My husband is a sort of promissory note; Im tired of meeting him.

---A Woman of No Importance.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other no dinner.

---In Conversation.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failures.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.The Importance of Being Earnest.Once a week is quite enough to propose to any-one, and it should always be done in a manner that attracts some attention.

---An Ideal Husband.

It is not the perfect but the imperfect who have need of love.

---An Ideal Husband.

in married life three is company and two is none.

---The Importance of Being Earnest.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

---An Ideal Husband.

I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

---The Importance of Being Earnest.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

---The Importance of Being Earnest.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

---A Woman of No Importance.

If we men married the women we deserve we should have a very bad time of it.

---An Ideal Husband.

I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

thing or nothing.

---The Importance of Being Earnest

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

---Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

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

---A Woman of No Importance.

In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other.

An Ideal Husband.

It is the growth of the moral sense in women that makes marriage such a hopeless one-sided institution.

---An Ideal Husband.

Englishwomen conceal their feelings till after they are married. They show them then.

---A Woman of No Importance.

No man should have a secret from his wife -she invariably finds it out.

---In Conversation.

When a woman finds out about her husband she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one's mind from higher things.

---The Remarkable Rocket.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary.When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

There is no pleasure in taking in a husband who never sees anything.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.