An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

know. Families are so mixed nowadays. Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody

...else.

pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to flirt till one is forty, or to be romantic till one

is forty-five...

love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about. lord caversham. You seem to me to be living entirely for pleasure.

manner.] I like looking at

geniuses, and listening to beautiful people.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the

truth.

is for an excellent charity: in aid of the

Undeserving, the only people I am really interested in.

Do you always really understand what you say, sir? lord goring. [After some hesitation.] Yes, father, if I listen attentively.

some good advice. mrs. cheveley. Oh! pray don’t. One should never give a woman anything that she can’t wear in the evening.

One of those utterly tedious amusements one only finds at an English country house on an English country Sunday. I don’t think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house.

salon. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised. Besides, I have arrived at the romantic stage. When I saw you last night