Oscar Wilde - Love Quotes

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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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.

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Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.

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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.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. —Love? -An Illusion. —Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. —You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. —What are you? -To define is to limit.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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

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

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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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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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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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!

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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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

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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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

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

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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