Oscar Wilde Quotes on Relationships
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Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
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The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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In married life, three is company, and two is none.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
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My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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!
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A true friend stabs you in the front
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Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.