He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.
You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
What a fuss people make about fidelity!
Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.
Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
That's an awful thing, a woman's memory.
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl I have ever met since I met you.
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.