Oscar Wilde: Quotes about love (page 3)

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

“Love is easily killed.”

“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

“A burnt child loves the fire.”

“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 things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you?
You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months.
For the last three months?”

“I don't know how to talk.
Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.”

“It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!”

“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”

“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”