Oscar Wilde Romance Quotations

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.