Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. – Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. – Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. – Oscar Wilde
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman