There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.