“ Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing. ”
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
|---|---|
| Source | An Ideal Husband |
| Topic | wrong |
| Date | 1895 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/885/885-h/885-h.htm |
Context
“A letter gravely compromising one’s position. I am only putting an imaginary case.
lady chiltern. Robert is as incapable of doing a foolish thing as he is of doing a wrong thing.
lord goring. [After a long pause.] Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.
lady chiltern. Are you a Pessimist? What will the other dandies say? They will all have to go into mourning.
lord goring. [Rising.] No, Lady Chiltern, I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means.”
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