One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

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 proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.