An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

two very pretty women,

oh my

Ah! I hate being educated!

GIRL.

She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence.

almost like a mr Gray..

Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

She looks rather like an orchid, and makes great demands on one’s curiosity. In all her movements she is extremely graceful.

similar to sibyl

By making it a rule only to talk to perfectly charming people like yourself.

lord henry..

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women . . . merely adored.

A flawless dandy, he would be annoyed if he were considered romantic. He plays with life, and is on perfectly good terms with the world. He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.]

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

You seem to me to be living entirely for pleasure. lord goring. What else is there to live for, father? Nothing ages like happiness.

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

bros got the life advice..

I don’t think I like you at all this evening! lord goring. I like you immensely.

AWWW

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don’t like are tedious, practical people.

Believe me, Mrs. Cheveley, it is a swindle. Let us call things by their proper names. It makes matters simpler.

It was a swindle, Sir Robert. Let us call things by their proper names. It makes everything simpler.

its called a hustle sweetheart <3

Scandals used to lend charm, or at least interest, to a man—now they crush him.

My God! what brought you into my life?

Englishmen always get romantic after a meal, and that bores me dreadfully.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

She was untruthful, dishonest, an evil influence on every one whose trust or friendship she could win.

Why do you let her influence you?

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Oh! don’t kill my love for you, don’t kill that!

He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress.

Secrets from other people’s wives are a necessary luxury in modern life.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living. . . .

That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people’s secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.

Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

goals.

Youth is the time for success. I couldn’t wait.

Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity.

With that wonderfully fascinating quiet voice of his he expounded to us the most terrible of all philosophies, the philosophy of power, preached to us the most marvellous of all gospels, the gospel of gold.

power, power over other men, power over the world, was the one thing worth having, the one supreme pleasure worth knowing, the one joy one never tired of, and that in our century only the rich possessed it.

To stake all one’s life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not—there is no weakness in that.

hedonism~

in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I had a wild hope that I might disarm destiny.

In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays.

Well, the English can’t stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has been in the wrong.

And in England a man who can’t talk morality twice a week to a large, popular, immoral audience is quite over as a serious politician.

The rich can’t do everything, after all.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Ah! the truth is a thing I get rid of as soon as possible!

Are you a Pessimist? What will the other dandies say? They will all have to go into mourning.

That is the first unkind thing you have ever said to me. How charmingly you said it!

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Geniuses talk so much, don’t they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

The higher education of men is what I should like to see. Men need it so sadly.

I don’t think man has much capacity for development.