"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked." - OVID, Ars Amatoria

"Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying, 'I love you'." - JUDITH VIORST, in Redbook

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance