Oscar Wilde on love
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar WildeOscar 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.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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He had hurt her beyond abuse, and now she doesn’t let his name also pass through her mind.
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StendhalStendhal People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian BaleChristian Bale Time is a funny thing- Flies fast, though constant it slows near large objects, black holes, and you.
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