I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde · Lord Darlington's line in Act I of the comedy.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde · Spoken by Lord Darlington in Act III of the play.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Albert Einstein · Scribbled in 1933 on a letter from a man who argued that gravity, by turning people sideways and upside down as the earth rotates, explained why they do foolish things like falling in love; the meme form "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love" is the trimmed version.

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

Robert Fulghum · The internet credits a shortened "mutual weirdness" version to Dr. Seuss, but Quote Investigator traces it to Fulghum's 1997 book; the Seuss label first appeared in 2011, twenty years after Geisel died.

He's her lobster!

Phoebe Buffay · Lisa Kudrow's Phoebe in Friends (1994 to 2004) · Phoebe to the others as Rachel kisses Ross after watching the prom video, proof of her theory that lobsters mate for life and Ross and Rachel are each other's lobsters; writer Alexa Junge took the idea from her own husband.

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”

“We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

“He's her lobster!”

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