Status Updates From Lady Windermere'in Yelpazesi

"'No, what consoles one nowadays is not repentance, it's pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. And besides, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker. Otherwise, no one believes in her. And nothing in the world would induce me to do that'"

"'Why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it hard enough to keep my own. I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have. And a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow, it doesn't go with modern dress, it makes one look old. And it spoils ones career at critical moments'"

"'London is too full of fogs and serious people, Lord Windermere. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves'"

"'What is a cynic?'
'A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing'"

"'I didn't say it as a matter of conceit, I said it as a matter of regret. I've been wildly, madly adored! I'm sorry, I have. It's been an immense nuisance. I should like to be allowed a little time to myself now and then'
'Time to educate yourself, I suppose?'
'No, time to forget all I've learned! That is much more important'"

"'How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?'
'A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!'
'Oh, so could I! But it's so difficult to meet one'"

"'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'"

"'Don't be led astray to the paths of virtue. Reform should be perfectly tedious. Now, 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'" i continue to adore oscar wilde's dialogue

"'Ah, good heavens. How marriage ruins a man. It's as demoralizing as cigarettes and far more expensive'"

“‘I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip’
‘What is the difference between scandal and gossip?’
‘Oh, gossip is charming. History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Now, I never moralize. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite. And a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a nonconformist conscience’”

“The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair” reminds me of the passage in Dorian Gray!!:
“Because I have loved so many of them, Dorian."
"Oh, yes, horrid people with dyed hair and painted faces."
"Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes," said Lord Henry.

“You’ve lost your figure and you’ve lost your character. Don’t lose your temper, you have only got one” [To a crotchety old man]

This is a good one for the “bring back yearning” crowd

“‘I want you to take my husband with you. He has been so attentive lately that he has become a perfect nuisance. Now this woman is just the thing for him. He’ll dance attendance upon her as long as she lets him and won’t bother me. I assure you, women of that kind are most useful. They form the basis of other peoples’ marriages’”

Wait no not a mistress I think

What do you mean Oscar Wilde has a play I’ve never heard of where a man begs his wife to invite his mistress to her birthday party with an appeal to female empowerment and lamentation on the undue burden of perceived purity on women in polite society?

“‘Dear Margaret, you are not going to cry.’
‘You needn’t be afraid Duchess. I never cry.’
‘That’s quite right dear. Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones’”

“‘Because I think life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it’”

“‘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’”

“‘You look on me as being behind the age. Well I am! I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this’
‘You think the age very bad?’
‘Yes. Nowadays, people seem to look on life as a speculation. It is not a speculation, it is a sacrament. Its ideal is love, its purification is sacrifice’”

“‘Don’t you want the world to take you seriously then Lord Darlington?’
‘No, not the world. Who are the people the world takes seriously? All the dull people one can think of, from the bishops down to the boars’l

“‘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’”