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
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree
Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
More Quotes By Oscar Wilde
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building
Oscar Wilde
I was disappointed in Niagara – most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn’t love her
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde