Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.