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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.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
Divorces are made in Heaven
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
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.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
- Marriage
In married life three is company and two is none.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
To speak frankly, 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.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Character
- Marriage
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder1897–1975TIME magazine (3 February 1958)
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
Robin Williams1951–2014Good Will Hunting
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
Robin Williams1951–2014Good Will Hunting
- Marriage
Ah, yes, divorce…from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams1951–2014“Robin Williams: ‘Divorce is like ripping a man’s genitals out through his wallet’”, Judith Woods, The Telegraph, (12 Aug 2014).
- Marriage
There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” (1992), Ch. 7: Work, §9: Sales to Service
- Motivation & Goals
There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
Gene Wolfe1931–2019The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996), Volume 3, Ch. 4
- Freedom
In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
That best portion of a good man’s life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)In context
- Virtue
She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
William Wordsworth1770–1850She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (1800)In context