Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde, "Salome"

...marriage is a sacrament for those who love each other.

Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

A mother's love is very touching, of course, but it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of selfishness in it.

Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

If a man and woman have sinned, let them both go forth into the desert to love or loathe each other there. Let them both be branded.

Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

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, "An Ideal Husband"