The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde: love quotes

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them.

You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

...in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
"I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us," murmured the lad gravely. "They create love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back."

They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.