A Woman of No Importance

ACT THREE LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. ... If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!) ... Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them. ACT TWO HESTER: ...You rich people in England, you don't know how you are living. You shut out from you society the gentle and the good...Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season...You have lost your secret of life. Oh, your English society seems to me shallow, selfish, foolish... It sits like a dead thing smeared with gold... (ACT FOUR) Hearts live by being wounded. Pleasure may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrow - oh sorrow, cannot break it. ...

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The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard.Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.One should sympathise with the joy, the beauty, the colour of life. The less said about life's sores the better.Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born aking, and most people die in exile, like most kings.what you have to do at present is simply to fit yourself for the best society. A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, and women rule society.Women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.—there are many different kinds of women, aren't there?—Only two kinds in society: the plain and the coloured.Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. But a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it!The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public - and those who do the improbableAll thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

国外人对婚姻，对爱情，对人的观念不像中国传统那样总是从道德的角度出发，他们更倾向于实际，没有心里负担，也不会有矫揉造作死缠烂打，更多的是你情我愿，也更多的是自私，但是会更幸福强大