An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

it is your duty to get married. You can’t be always living for pleasure.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other,

Oh! spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

The drawback of stealing a thing, Mrs. Cheveley, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own.

He has got more than pluck, sir, he has got genius. lord goring. Ah! I prefer pluck. It is not so common, nowadays, as genius is. lord caversham.

if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of

Do you think you could possibly make your son behave a little better occasionally? Just as a change.