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
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
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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.