32 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Love and Relationships

Oscar Wilde is one of the most important figures in Irish and European literature. Besides being a great poet, writer and playwright, he is known for his life, short but extravagant and rich in adventures. His most famous novels are "The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)" and "The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)".

A short quote can mean a lot, especially from a genius mind like Oscar Wilde! Thanks to his intelligence, his notorious wit and his ability to observe the human passions and the morals of society, many of his thoughts, phrases and aphorisms are not only brilliant but also make us think and reflect on our own condition. What did Oscar Wilde say about love, marriage and relationships? What are the best quotes and most meaningful sayings by Oscar Wilde on love?

Here is our list of the 32 most inspirational quotes by Oscar Wilde on love, marriage and relationships.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

Oscar Wilde

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

Love will fly if held too lightly, love will die if held too tightly.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

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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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What they like is to be a man's last romance.

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Friendship is more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

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

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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

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

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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