An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

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.

only to be expected, is it not? His good father was just the same. There is nothing like race, is there?

now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for

But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Can’t make out how you stand London Society. The thing has gone to the dogs, a lot of damned nobodies talking about nothing. lord goring. I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

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

makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided institution.