“Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything. ”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“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.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”
― An Ideal Husband
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”
― An Ideal Husband
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