Oscar Wilde: Quotes about love

Oscar Wilde was Irish writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Any place you love is the world to you.”

Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince

Source: The Happy Prince

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

Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost

Source: The Canterville Ghost

“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.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“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.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Love is easily killed.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Complete Fairy Tales

“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.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“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.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A burnt child loves the fire.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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.”

Oscar Wilde

“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?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“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.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“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!”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. II, st. 9
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

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

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“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.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance