Wilde words...

10 memorable quotes from Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde.

"I won't tell u that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. they matter a great deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own lives, fully, entirely, completely- or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands"

"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, if u pretend to be good the world takes u very seriously. If u pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism"

"What is the difference between scandal and gossip? History is merely gossip. But scandals are gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite. And a woman who moralises is invariably plain."

"Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. Reformed, u wld 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 irretrievably bad, and leave us quite unattractively good. "

"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!"

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing"

"Experience is the question of instinct about life. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"

"I don't think that people can be divided into the good and the bad as if they were two separate races or creations. What are called 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, repentence, pity, sacrifice."

"There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice"

"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."

Recently,
I found myself smiling to myself whenever I put down the book.
I'm finding myself in love with a gay playwright who has a brillient mind!

It is really funny,
and refreshing to see serious issues dealt with with such light-hearted triviality.

And I think,
well,

life is just too tiring to be dealt with seriously.

Serious! :p