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 »
Gertrude:
Lord Goring, you are talking quite seriously.
Lord Arthur Goring:
You must excuse me, Lady Chiltern. It won't occur again, if I can help it.
Gertrude:
But I like you to be serious.
Mabel:
Dear Gertrude, don't say such a dreadful thing to Lord Goring. Good afternoon, Lord Goring. Pray be as trivial as you can.
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