Oscar Wilde quotes on love and marriage

Oscar Wilde quote. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Image copyright Ireland Calling

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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Oscar Wilde quote. Keep love in your heart. Image copyright Ireland Calling
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Oscar Wilde quote. If you are not too long I will wait for you here all my life. Image copyright Ireland Calling
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Oscar Wilde quote. Who being loved is poor. Image copyright Ireland Calling
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Oscar Wilde quote. There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. Image copyright Ireland Calling

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Ogham, the mysterious language of the trees The Origins of the Ogham alphabet are still a mystery for many historians, but it is primarily thought to be an early form of the Irish written Language. Bealtaine Fire

Oscar Wilde quote. The love that dare not speak its name. Image-copyright-Ireland-Calling


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