“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

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

“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”