“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
More from Oscar Wilde on Love
“A kiss may ruin a human life”
“You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.”
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
“Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.”
“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”