Oscar Wilde: Quotes about love (page 2)

“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“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.”

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…”

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things… I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”