“ Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman. ”
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
|---|---|
| Source | A Woman of No Importance |
| Topic | romance women |
| Date | 1893 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/854/854-h/854-h.htm |
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“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Mrs. Allonby. Twenty years of romance! Is there such a thing?
Lord Illingworth. Not in our day. 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.
Lord Illingworth. You are quite right. In a Temple every one should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped.
Mrs. Allonby. And that should be man?
Lord Illingworth.”
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