The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-14
SOME STRIKING EPIGRAms.
All There Is to WiIde's Play Conden-
sed Into Verbal Pyrotechnics.

sed Into Verbal PyrOtechnfcs.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Z As a literary curiosity. the following
batch Of epigramics cuned from oscar
.Wilde's play. An Ideal Husband" may
not lack interest. Uuhappfy. they consti-
tute the only element of interest in the
play;
1t is not the perfect. but the imperfect.
who have need to love.
All sins. except a sin against itself. love
/ should forgive.
| London society is entirely composed now
/ of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics.
/ hate being educated; IL puts one quite
on a level with the lower classes.
/ Nowadays people marry as often as
/ they can. II is most fashionable.
More women grow old nowadays through
/ the faithfulness of their admirers than
/ through anything else.
No question is ever indiscreet. All an
swers are.
She's a genius in the daytime and a
/ beauty at night.
| l like looking at geniuses and listening
I TO beautiful people.
! You have your price, ] suppose; every
! body has nowadays. The drawback is
that most people are dreadfully expensive.
l know 1 am.
I think anything better than high intel
leetual pressure; it makes the noses Of
young girls so very large.
Truth is very complex thing.
II is tragic how much our husbands
| trust us.
London society is entirely made up Of
/ dOwdies and handles The men are all
dowdies and the women are all dandies
Secrets from other peoples wives are a
| necessary luxury in modern life, but no
man should have a secret from his own
wife. She Invariably finds it out. They
| can discover everything except the OBJ
vious.
Life is never fair. Robert. Perhaps IT Is
/ a good thing for most of us that II is not.
| What this century worships is wehth;
the god of this century is wealth; to sue
coed one must have wealth, at all costs
one must have wealth.
Do you really think that it is weak TO
| yield to temptation? ! tell you that there
are terrible temptations that it requires
strength and courage to YIELD TO.
! l am always saying what / should not
say. In fact. / usually say what think.
a great mistake nowadays, makes one so
liable TO be misunderstood
The Worlu can't stand a man who always
/ says he is right, but they are very fond Of
| a man who admits that he has been wrong.
| Do you know her we'll? SO wen that l
/ got engaged to be married to her once.
In the case of a woman who dyes her
hair. sex is a challenge. not a defense
She wore too much rouge the other night
and not quite enough clothes. That is al
ways a sign OF despair in a woman.
| l think that in practical life there Is
something about success that is little
interruptions; something about ambition
! that is unscrupulous always. If man has
to climb the crag, he climbs the crag; If
/ ne has to walk in the mire he walks in
the mire.
Nobody is incapable Of doing a foolish
thing; nobody is incapable of doing a
wrong thing.
can't stand geniuses; geniuses talk
| too much
1t is an excellent charity. The object
is to try and bring a little happiness into
the homes of the upper classes.
Nothing ages one so rapidly as being
| too modern.
Society is terribly overpopuated. Some
one should arrange proper scheme OF
emigration.
In my time we were taught not to under
| stand anything. That was the old sys-
tenn. But modern women understand ev-
erythlng, I'm told.
l have never read blue book. ! prefer
books with yellow covers; they're more
| accurate.
think men are the only authorities on
dress. One would not think so from the
sort of hats they wear, would one?
! ] cannot understand this modern mania
for curates. In my time we girls saw
them running about the place like rab-
bits. but we never took any notice or
| them.
Dining at home by yourselves? Is tina;
quite prudent? But 1 forgot your hus-
band is an exception.
Mortality is simply the attitude we
adopt toward people whom we personally
dislike.
A man who cannot talk morality twice
q week to q large immoral audience IL
! quite over as a serious politician.
| / should fancy Mrs. Cheveley Is one OF
| those very modern women Of our day who
fnd a new scandal as becoming as a new
bonnet, and airs them both in the park
| every afternoon.
Fashion is what one wears ones self.
What is not fashionable is what other peo-
pie wear; just as vulgarity is the behavior
| of other people.
Extraordinary thing about the lower
middle classes in England. They are al
ways losing their relations. They are ex-
tremely fortunate in that respect.
1t Is always nice TO be expected and not
to arrive.
Why will parents always appear at the
wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake
in nature. / suppose.
The fact is this is not my day for talk
ing seriously. During the season l onE
talk seriously on the first Tuesday Of each
month from to 7. MY doctor says must
not have any serious conversation after T..
Bachelors are not fashionable any more.
| They're a damaged lot: too much IS known
about them.
D. sympathy. There is great deal
| too much OF that going nowadays.
London society is nothing but a lot OF
/ d nobodies talking about nothing.
Do you really understand what you say,
| sir? Yes. father. If / listen attentively.
Men always look so silly when they are
caught, and they are always being caught.
| Romance should never begin with senti-
ment 1t should begin with science and
| end with sentiment.
! That's Gertrude Chiltern's writing, the
ten commandments in every stroke Of the
| pen and the moral law all over the page.
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