“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”

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

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”

“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.”

“Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind.”

“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.”