When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. – 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