14 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Love

Oscar Wilde quotes on love

3. Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - And must I lose a soul's inheritance?** Helas!, l. 12-14 (1881)

20. le mystere de l'amour est plus grand que le mystere de la mort.

21. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

58. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

79. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

85. Then she paused. A rose shook in her blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick breath parted the petals of her lips. They trembled. A southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress. 'I love him', she said simply.

88. To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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

97. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

99. Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

124. Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

139. Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.

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

207. 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!