lady windermere's fan quotes Flashcards
What does Lord Darlington say he would’ve done for Lady W’s birthday?
“I would have covered the whole street in front of your house w flowers for you to walk on”
What does Lady Windermere say Lord Darlington did to annoy her?
“You kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening”
What does Lord Darlington say about conceited ppl?
“Nowadays many conceited ppl go about Society pretending to be good”
What does Lord Darlington say about friends?
“I think we might be great friends. Let us be great friends. You may want a friend someday
What does Lady Windermere say about being vile?
“Bc the husband is vile - should the wife be vile also?
What does Lord Darlington say most women are?
“Most women, nowadays are rather mercenary” - L.D.
“Don’t talk about such people” - L.W
What does Lady Windermere say about women who have fallen in a1, s1?
“I think they should never be forgiven”
What does Lord Darlington say about rules?
“Life is too complex a thing to be settled by these hard + fast rules”
What does the DoB say to Lord D?
“I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked”
What’s an example of what the DoB tells Lady Agatha to do?
“Will you go out on the terrace + look at the sunset?”
What does the DoB call her nieces?
“My dear nieces” “Plain, dreadfully plain”
What does Lady W say when the DoB tells her about Lord W’s affair?
“It’s impossible! We are only married 2 years. Our child is 6 months old”
What does the DoB tell Lady W about men?
“Men become old but they never become good”
What does Lady W say in her soliloquy after the DoB leaves?
“I will find out”
“It’s some hideous mistake”
“He loves me”
What happens with the bank book?
Lady Windermere opens the bank book + sees its normal
Then she sees a private, locked one that shows he’s giving money to Mrs E
What does Lord W say to Lady W after she confronts him about the book?
“I think it wrong that a wife should spy on her husband”
What does Lord W say about Lady W’s honour?
“Your honour is untouched, Margaret”
What does Lady W say about how she feels in a1, s1?
“It’s I who feel degraded! You (Lord W) don’t feel anything. I feel stained”
What does Lord Windermere say about what Mrs E is?
“She is alone in the world”
What does Lord W say about what Mrs E was?
“Mrs E was once honoured, loved, respected”
What does Lord W say about suffering one’s faults?
“To suffer one’s own faults - there is the sting of life”
What does Lady W say about women who really repent?
“If a woman really repents, she never wishes to return to the society that has made her/seen her ruin”
What makes Lord Augustus view Mrs E in a diff way?
“Mrs E has received a card” - Lord W
“Then she’s all right” - Lord A
What tells us that Mrs E made her way into society? How?
“On Thursday? With great pleasure” - Mrs E
She flatters Lady Jedburgh
What does Lady Windermere say Lord Windermere did with her life?
“He took it - used it - spoiled it”
What does Lord Darlington tell Lady W life w Lord W would be like?
“You would have to charm him. You would have to be to him the mask of his real life, the cloak to hide his secret”
What does Lord Darlington ask Lady Windermere in a1, s2?
“What does your husband give you? Nothing.”
What does Mrs E switch up her views about in a1, s2?
“I’m so sorry for what I said to you (Lady W) this afternoon about her (Mrs E)”
What does Mrs E say when she finds Lady W’s letter?
“The same words that twenty years ago wrote to her father! How bitterly I have been punished”
What does Mrs E say to protect Lady W when Lord W is looking for her?
“She has gone to bed. She said she had a headache”
What does Mrs E say when Lord W leaves in the end of a2?
“I feel a passion awakening within me that I never felt before”
“The daughter must not be like her mother”
“A moment may ruin a life”
What does Lady W say at the start of a3 in her soliloquy?
“I am cold - cold as a loveless thing”
“We make gods of men and they leave us”
How does Lady W refer to the letter?
“That fatal letter!”
What does Mrs E tell Lady W she is?
“You are on the brink of ruin, you’re on the brink of a hideous precipice”
What does Lady W say about Mrs E says she opened the letter to Lord W?
“You opened a letter of mine to my husband? You wouldn’t dare!”
What does Mrs E say she’s saving Lady W from?
“To save you from the abyss into which you’re falling”
“Save you from utter ruin”
“Save you from the consequence of a hideous mistake”
What does Mrs E reveal to Lady W?
“Your husband loves you”
“You may never meet w such love again”
What does Lady W call Mrs E in act 3?
“You talk as if you had a heart. Women life you have no hearts. Heart is not in you. You are bought and sold”
How does Mrs E describe her fallen life to Lady W?
“Fall into the pit, to be despised, mocked, abandoned, sneered at”
What does Mrs E say she wont let happen to Lady W’s life?
“I have wrecked my own life, but I will not let you wreck yours”
What does Mrs E tell Lady W to do that may reveal how she feels?
“Even if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child”
What does Lady W do + say after agreeing to Mrs E?
‘Holding out her hands helplessly as a child might do’
“Take me home. Take me home.”
What does Cecil say about Mrs E?
“Mrs E looked very handsome tonight, didnt she?”
“Clever woman, Mrs E”
What does Dumby call women nowadays?
“Awfully commercial, women nowadays”
What does Lord A say about women w a past?
“I prefer women w a past. They’re always so demmed amusing to talk to”
What does Cecil say about gossip?
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip”
What does Dumby say about marriage?
“How a marriage ruins a man! It’s as demoralising as cigarettes + far more expensive”
What does Lord D tell the men about the woman he loves?
“The woman I love is not free, or thinks she isn’t”
How does Mrs Erlynne self sacrifice herself?
Reveals herself to Lord W + Lord D saying “I am afraid I took your wife’s fan in mistake for my own”
What does Lady W say when she thinks about telling Lord W in the start of act 4?
“It would kill me”
“That fatal fan of mine”
“Life is terrible”
What does Lord W call Mrs E in act 4?
“I thought Mrs E was a woman more sinned against than sinning”
How does Lady W respond when Lord W calls Mrs E “as bad as a woman can be”?
“Don’t talk so bitterly about any woman. Don’t think that ppl can be divided into the good + bad”
What does Lord W tell Lady W when she tells Parker to let Mrs E in?
“She’s a very dangerous woman. She’s the most dangerous woman I know.”
What does Mrs E tell Lord W? What does this mean?
“Manners before morals!”
Everyone has a facade of being moral
What does Lord W say about Mrs E when he says he should’ve exposed her?
“The mother she mourned as death is living a divorced woman, going about under an assumed name a bad woman preying upon life”
Why does Lord W say Mrs E has no right to claim Lady W as her daughter?
“You abandoned her when she was a child in the cradle”
What does Lord W say Mrs E did for 20 years of her life?
“Lived w/o your child, without a thought of your child”
What does Mrs E say about her mother feelings?
“They were terrible - they made me suffer”
What does Mrs E tell Lord W to let Lady W cherish?
“Let your wife cherish the memory of this dead, stainless mother”
What does Lord Darlington say about gutters?
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
What does Mrs E say about ideals?
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better”
It’s better to be realistic
What does Lady W say about her father?
“It gave him too much pain”
“My father really died of a broken hear. His was the most ruined like I know”
What does Lord W ironically say in the end of the play about evil to Lady W?
“Into your world evil has never entered”
What does Lady W tell Lord W about the world?
“There is the same world for all of us, and good + evil, sin + innocence”