Oscar Wilde. The fan of lady Windermere (№ 374027)

Oh, gossip is the beauty of it. History is gossip. And backbiting is the same gossip, only seasoned with morality and therefore deadly dull. I never read morals. Man, reading morality, usually a hypocrite, and a woman reading moral, certainly ugly. Least of all a woman paints the Puritan conscience. Fortunately, most women understands it.