So much marriage is certainly not becoming. Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building
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《A Woman of No Importance》
- Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
But don't you think one can be happy when one is married?
Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. - We men know life too early. And we women know life too late.
- One should never surrender. Not even to the Ideal Man? Certainly not to him. Unless, of course, one wants to grow tired of him.