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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is...more

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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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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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It ...more

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And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.

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Lady Windermere: Windermere and I married for love.Duchess of Berwick: Yes, we begin like that. It was only Berwick's brutal and incessant threats of ...more

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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 b...more

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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