There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Oscar WildeTwenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
Oscar WildeArt creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Oscar Wilde