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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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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears...more

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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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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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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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any ...more