I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Salomé: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan (ed. 1919)
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Salomé: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan (ed. 1919)