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 »
Mabel:
You are very late!
Lord Arthur Goring:
Have you missed me?
Mabel:
Awfully!
Lord Arthur Goring:
Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer. I like being missed.
Mabel:
How very selfish of you!
Lord Arthur Goring:
I am very selfish.
Mabel:
You are always telling me of your bad qualities, Lord Goring.
Lord Arthur Goring:
I have only told you half of them as yet, Miss Mabel!
Mabel:
Really! Are the others very bad?
Lord Arthur Goring:
Quite dreadful! When I think of them at night, I go to sleep at once.
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