Both authors lived partly during the Victorian era, when women had very few rights compared with men, and this is often highlighted in the plays of George Bernard Shaw, but not so often in Oscar Wilde’s. However, his 1893 play A Woman of No Importance, is a curious mix of this type he wrote so well, and a more serious and bitter condemnation of social mores, which we would more readily expect from his contemporary fellow Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Oscar Wilde excelled in writing light and witty, drawing room satires, plays containing line after line such as these. That makes us a civilised body.”Įven if you have never come across these particular quotations before, you might be likely to guess correctly at their author. “We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. “To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!” “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.
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