"The proper basis for marriage is a..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
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“Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”
“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”
“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
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“I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!”
“My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.”
“Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.”
More on Misunderstanding
“It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.”
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”
“You know, most people really don't know me.”