This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde’s trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband’s infidelity, contemplates running off with a roué until her rival illustrates the difference between morality and its appearance. A comic masterpiece, studded with humorous quips and clever paradoxes.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay ARE compliments. They're the only things we CAN pay.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.
Men become old, but they never become good.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single things.
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.
We make gods of men and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful.
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