Oscar Wilde Quotes About Husband

• When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Husband, Women

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891)

• There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Husband, Real

  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.226, Oxford Paperbacks

• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Husband, Fear

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.113, Mondial

• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Husband, Flirting

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

• When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Unhappy

  Oscar Wilde (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.24, OUP Oxford

• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Grief

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891). A similar quotation appears inWilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1 (1895).

• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Husband, Vulgarity Is

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

• On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

• Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (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.205, OUP Oxford

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