Oscar Wilde: Quotes about love

Oscar Wilde was Irish writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

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

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Variant: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Source: An Ideal Husband

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

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“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.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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

Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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

Oscar Wilde Salome

le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+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+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)

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

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

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

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis