SubscribeOscar Wilde Love Quotes and Sayings
Posted on Oct 05, 2008 under O, Oscar Wilde, Poet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Victorian Era | 3 CommentsOscar Wilde’s Love Quotes and Sayings
1. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
2. Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
3. Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
4. Life is one fool thing after another where as love are two fool things after each other.
5. To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
6. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
7. Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
8. 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.
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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. (read more in Wikipedia)
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1. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
2. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
3. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
4. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
5. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
6. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
