To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde · Lord Goring's line in Act III; Wilde had already printed it as "life-long romance" in his 1894 Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

More Love Quotes

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin · An aphorism from the second collection of the Glamour editor's "Neurotic's Notebook" sayings.

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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“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.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”