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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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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Anc...more

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LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, rema...more

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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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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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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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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precio...more