Oscar Wilde quote about questions from An Ideal Husband - Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
 Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895). copy citation

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Author Oscar Wilde
Source An Ideal Husband
Topic questions indiscretion
Date 1895
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/885/885-h/885-h.htm

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“I fear I could hardly agree with you there. But do sit down. And now tell me, what makes you leave your brilliant Vienna for our gloomy London—or perhaps the question is indiscreet?
Mrs. Cheveley. Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
sir robert chiltern. Well, at any rate, may I know if it is politics or pleasure?
Mrs. Cheveley. Politics are my only pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to flirt till one is forty, or to be romantic till one is forty-five, so we poor women who are under thirty, or say we are, have nothing open to us but politics or philanthropy.” source

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