Oscar Wilde Quotes About Marriage

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Best Friend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

• The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Marriage

• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Couple

• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

• The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Bases, Mutual

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Married

• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Character, Opportunity

  "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".

• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Years, Romance

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

• Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Men, Agree

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, America, Now And Then

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.94, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Society, Faces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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