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JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't ...more

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ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposa...more

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You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

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LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before ...more

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, on...more

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.I attribute it to the superior ...more

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Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that...more

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.