Oscar Wilde Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Character Quotes

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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Love never claims, it ever gives.

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We love the things we love for what they are.

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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

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... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

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The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

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Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

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When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

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In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

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[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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