quotes from lady widermere's fan by oscar wilde
"Lord Darlington. [Still
seated L.C.] Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go
about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather
a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad.
Besides, there is this to be said. If you pretend to be
good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to
be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity
of optimism."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Lord Darlington. Do you know
I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this
world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they
make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd
to divide people into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious. I take the side of the charming, and
you, Lady Windermere, can’t help belonging to them."
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