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

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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

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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.