Oscar Wilde: Lord Illingworth : Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

Lord Illingworth : Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so — Oscar Wilde

Lord Illingworth : Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman. Mrs. Allonby : Or the want of it in the man.

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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion — Oscar Wilde
Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to — Oscar Wilde
Tell me, when you are alone with him Sphinx, does he take off his face and revea — Oscar Wilde
Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son, If you are a man dispense — Rumi
What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke A conscious Something to resent the yo — Omar Khayyám
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenienc — Jane Austen
C'est un merveilleux assaisonnement aux plaisirs qu'on goûte que la présence des — Molière
Bref, la fortune a toujours tort. — Jean de La Fontaine
I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'e — William A. Muhlenberg
The marks humans leave are too often scars. — John Green
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw