An Ideal Husband

by Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

Of course. 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.