The quotations of

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

1854–1900

173 quotes, most often on Marriage, Love and Comedy. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
- Love
Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.
- Love
- Music
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
- Love
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
- Love
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 (1890)In context
- Love
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
An Ideal Husband (1895), Act III
- Love
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Salomé (1893)
- Life & Death
- Love
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IVIn context
- Love
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIIIn context
- Love
I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Love
- Marriage
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Love

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