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An Ideal Husband QUOTES

An Ideal Husband QUOTES

1 " To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

2 " It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

3 " I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

4 " Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

5 " To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

6 " Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

7 " You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

8 " There is nothing like race, is there? "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

9 " Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
And falsehoods the truths of other people.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

10 " A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

11 " I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

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

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

13 " Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

14 " Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

15 " I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

16 " this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

17 " Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

18 " My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

19 " Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

20 " Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the fruits of his ambition, if you take him from the splendour of a great political career, if you close the doors of public life against him, if you condemn him to sterile failure, he who was made for triumph and success? Women are not meant to judge us but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission. Why should you scourge him with rods for a sin done in his youth, before he knew you, before he knew himself? A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. A women's life revolves around curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that man's life progresses. Don't make any terrible mistake, Lady Chiltern. A woman who can keep a man's love, and love him in return, has done all the world wants of women, or should want of them. "

― Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband