Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ideal Husband
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
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