An Ideal Husband Respect and Reputation Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
| Quote #1 MRS. CHEVELEY. Do you know, I am quite looking forward to meeting your clever husband, Lady Chiltern. […] They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent. (1.43) |
Mrs. Cheveley seems to think that any attention is good attention.
| Quote #2 LADY MARKBY. Oh! she goes everywhere there, and has such pleasant scandals about all her friends. (1.60) |
For Lady Markby, scandal is something delicious and exotic – to be kept far away from her, preferably across an ocean.
| Quote #3 Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, every one has to pose as a paragon of purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues – and what is the result? You all go over like ninepins - one after the other. (1.268) |
Like Lord Goring, Mrs. Cheveley believes that human beings are fundamentally flawed. Unlike him, she uses this knowledge for personal profit.
