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Best Romantic Love Quotes and Messages To Send to Your Special Someone. 1. "I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. ... — Oscar Wilde. 99. "I swear I couldn't love you more than I do ...
— Oscar Wilde “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”—C.S. Lewis “There is no remedy for love but to ...
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1]
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Pages 683–780. (This is an expanded version of the 1962 book The Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Rupert Hart-Davis; both versions contain the text of the British Museum manuscript). Ian Small (editor): The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Volume II: De Profundis; Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis (2005). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
21. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Herman Hesse. 22. "I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more."
The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895).
— Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” “My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement.” — Winston Churchill