Quotes from work
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900.
“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”
Kelvil, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Lord Illingworth, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+become+too+brilliant+Nothing+spoils+a+romance+so+much+as+a+sense+of+humour+in+the+woman%22+%22or+the+want+of+it+in+the+man%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
Lord Illingworth, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.”
Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q="The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future"&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
