Oscar Wilde Quotes

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy and unhealthy ways to be married.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.