A woman who can keep a man's love, and love him in return, has done all the world wants of women, or should want of them.

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

I suppose that when a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her?

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands, or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us - else what use is love at all?

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

Robert, men can love what is beneath them things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything.

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

So great had been his love for her that he had not suffered even the grave to hide her from him.

Oscar Wilde, "A House of Pomegranates"