Ideal Husband Quotes

• An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

  Booth Tarkington

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

  1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

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• It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Age, World

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• The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Loveless, One Thing

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1230, GENERAL PRESS

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• A good husband makes a good wife.

  John Florio

  Inspirational, Marriage, Husband

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Confidence

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Psychology, Facts

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1160, GENERAL PRESS

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• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, House, Political

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1159, GENERAL PRESS

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• The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, World, Goodness

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• Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Heart, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Firsts, Importance Of Being Earnest, First Time

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  Oscar Wilde

  True Life, Forgiving, Sin

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, People, Listening

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Ends, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Answers, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Past, People

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Men, Should Have

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.94, Oscar Wilde

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, People, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.230, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

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• To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Love You, Heart

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vulgarity Is, People, Vulgar

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.212, Oxford Paperbacks

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