An Ideal Husband: Quotes

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• "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance, Phipps."

  Lord Goring · Act III

• "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

  Mrs Cheveley · Act II

• "I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about."

  Lord Goring · Act I

• "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

  Mrs Cheveley · Act I

• "Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is."

  Mrs Cheveley · Act I

• "An ideal husband! Oh, I don't think I should like that. It sounds like something in the next world."

  Mabel Chiltern · Act IV

• "Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."

  Lord Goring · Act III