Oscar Wilde: Quotes about love

“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.”

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”

“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”