Hearts are made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde · The source reads: “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.” · A parenthesis in the long prison letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, written in Reading Gaol in 1897; the whole sentence says the most terrible thing about his ruin is not the broken heart but that it turns the heart to stone.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Oscar Wilde

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Oscar Wilde · A Woman of No Importance (1893), act I

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks · The heart of her argument that love is something we do, from the chapter that defines it.

I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.

Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.

So love is Lord of all the world by right.

Edmund Spenser

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

“I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.”

“So love is Lord of all the world by right.”

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