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A Woman of No Importance

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.


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“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Kelvil, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“Lord Illingworth: Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
Mrs. Allonby: Or the want of it in the man.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&amp;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&amp;pg=PA34#v=onepage <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)

Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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Oscar Wilde photo

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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