Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.Įxcept from Wikipedia: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me… #14 The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince and Other Tales: The Nightingale and the Rose, 1888,ġ4. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.ġ3. There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. For one moment our lives met – our souls touched.ġ2. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You did not know it then-you know it now!ġ1. Take it, and do with it what you will….I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. … women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Arbuthnot, Act IV) #9 The Sphinx Without a Secretĩ. What we like is to be a man’s last romance.Ĩ. That is their clumsy vanity … women have a more subtle instinct about things. Men always want to be a woman’s first love. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. #6 The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, 1952, Alvin RedmanĦ. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. #5 Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, December 1894ĥ. 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 of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. #4 The Nightingale and the Rose, The happy prince and other tales Ĥ. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves. … where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. #2 Oscar Wilde’s A Critic in Pall Mall: Mr. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. Sorry (not sorry).Oscar Wilde Love Quotes and Sayings, Photo credit: Wikipedia Oscar Wilde Love Quotes and Sayingsġ. There are times I’ve been in a disagreement with someone and I have accepted blame and apologized for everything just to not give them anything to keep arguing about. “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde did not say, on his deathbed, “Either those curtains go or I do.” He is reported to have said something along the lines of “this wallpaper will be the death of me – one of us will have to go”, but not on his deathbed.”Ħ. “The following clarification was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday October 18 2007. One or other of us has to go.” But sadly, Wikiquote corrected this and reports: He is also said to have something on his deathbed like, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. …which is especially true when faced with the many cheeses, desserts and breads of Paris. …which means Oscar and I would have been friends, acquaintances and enemies.Ĥ. “I can resist everything except temptation.” One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”ģ. “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.” Why be humble when you can be great?ġ. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”Ģ. “I never travel without my diary. Second, he loved saying sensational things. Why do I love Oscar Wilde? First, great writer.
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