Oscar Wilde Quotations Love and marriage

 

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose

 

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!

 

Who, being loved, is poor?

 

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

 

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

 

In married life three is company and two none.

 

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

 

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

 

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

 

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

 

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

 

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

 

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

 

Those whom the gods love grow young.

 

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

 

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

 

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

 

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

 

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