Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
Interpretation
Beauty attracts us, but personality makes us feel connected.
This quote by Oscar Wilde suggests that while physical beauty may initially draw individuals towards each other, it is the depth of personality that creates a lasting emotional bond. It highlights the importance of internal qualities over external appearances in forming meaningful relationships.
In practice
During a wedding toast, I might say this quote to highlight the importance of love built on personality.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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