Status Updates From Lady Windermere's Fan

I congratulate you, my dear fellow. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy!

Now, my dear Tuppy, don’t be led astray into the paths of virtue. Reformed, you would be perfectly tedious. That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don’t love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

Act 1 is so fun! eg:

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it

Are all men bad? >> Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.

تعرفين إني أخشى أن يلحق الصالحون بهذه الدنيا أبلغ الأذى ، وإن أفدح مايتسببون فيه من الأذى ، هو أنهم يجعلون للفساد كل هذا الشأن الخطير ...

نحن جميعا غي أيامنا هذه من الضيق بحيث لانملك مانمنحه غير الإطراء.