Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Interpretation
This quote suggests that love is essential and can exist alongside secrets.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde expresses the idea that heartfelt love can coexist with personal secrets. The implication is that while secrets can be part of a relationship, the emotional connection and trust encapsulated in the heart are what truly matter in love. It suggests that one's emotional investment can create a space for privacy and individuality, as long as the deeper bond remains intact.
In practice
During a romantic dinner, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of emotional connection.
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
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Beware how you give your heart.
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
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