Showing posts with label IDEAL HUSBAND. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IDEAL HUSBAND. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2020

Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on Good Advice)


Lord Goring: “I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.”

Mrs. Cheveley: “Oh! pray don't. One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening.” —Anglo-Irish playwright, poet, dandy and wit Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), An Ideal Husband (1895)

Monday, September 11, 2017

Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on When to Play Fairly)



“One should always play fairly… when one has the winning cards.” —Anglo-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), An Ideal Husband (1895)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Quote of the Day (Oscar Wilde, on Being the Subject of Gossip)



Lord Goring: “I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”—Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895)