Oscar Wilde on love
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar WildeOscar 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.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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