Imitation of Life

I've been reading Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, a play. Here are a few quotes that I found interesting.

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, a woman who moralises is invariably plain."

"Women like to find us[men] quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good."

"What on earth should we men do going about with purity and innocence? A carefully thought out button hole is much more effective."

"In this world there are only two tragedy. One is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it."

"Cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

"A sentimentalist is a man who sees absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing."

"Experience is a question of instinct about life."

"Good women may have terrible things in them, mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin. Bad women, as they are termed, may have in them sorrow, repentance, sacrifice."

All by Oscar Wilde, of cause.


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