A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde
NOTE: This kind of monologue is definitely reprinted by A Woman of No Importance. Oscar Wilde. Greater london: Methuen & Co., 1916.
MRS. ALLONBY: The Ideal Person! Oh, the best Man will need to talk to us as if i was goddesses, and treat us as if i was children. This individual should reject all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our vagaries. He should encourage all of us to have caprices, and prohibit us to obtain missions. He should always claim much more than he means, and always suggest much more than he says. He should never run-down other fairly women. That could show he had no preference, or produce one realise that he had a lot of. No, he should be great about them almost all, but admit somehow they will don\t attract him. Whenever we ask him a question about anything, this individual should give to us an answer all about ourselves. He should usually praise us for whatever qualities he knows all of us haven\t received. But he should be pitiless, quite pitiless, in reproaching us pertaining to the virtues that we have never dreamed of having. He should not believe that we realize the use of useful things. That would be unforgivable. Yet he ought to shower in us almost everything we don\t want. This individual should persistently compromise all of us in public, and treat us with total respect while we are alone. However he needs to be always all set to have a perfectly terrible landscape, whenever we want one, and to become miserable, absolutely miserable, at a moment\s notice, and also to overwhelm all of us with simply reproaches within just twenty a few minutes, and to end up being positively chaotic at the end of half an hour, also to leave us permanently at 1 / 4 to ten, when we have to go and outfit for dinner.
So when, after that, one has seen him for really the last time, and he has refused to take back again the little items he provides given a single, and guaranteed never to contact one again, or to compose one any foolish albhabets, he needs to be perfectly broken-hearted, and telegraph to one the entire day, and send out one tiny notes every single half-hour by a private hansom, and dine quite exclusively at the membership, so that everyone should know just how unhappy having been. And after a whole dreadful week, during which speculate if this trade gone regarding everywhere with one\s partner, just to show how completely lonely 1 was, he might be given a 3rd last parting, in the evening, after which, if his conduct has become quite irreproachable, and you have behaved seriously badly to him, this individual should be allowed to admit that he continues to be entirely inside the wrong, so when he has admitted that, it becomes a woman\s responsibility to reduce, and you can do it once more from the beginning, with variations.
