For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to deliver it: Ca…more »
Lord Arthur Goring:
Gertrude, it is not the perfect, but rather the imperfect who have need of love.
Gertrude:
You seem to know a great deal about it all of a sudden.
Lord Arthur Goring:
Oh, I hope not. All I know, Gertrude, is that it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love. Gertrude, you have more courage than any woman I have ever known. Do not be afraid now to use it.
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