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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Book by Oscar Wilde · 3 quotes · Knows, Husband, Ifs

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes

“Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.”

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”

“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”