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
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
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. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.