Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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

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

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

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

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

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

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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