Friday, October 23, 2015

Difference between scandal and gossip - Oscar Wilde


Lord Windermere  : "What is the difference between scandal and gossip?"
Cecil Graham  : "Oh! gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

 --from "Lady Windermere's Fan" 

 Photo: Ronald Colman as Lord Darlington, May McAvoy as Lady Windermere, and Bert Lytell as Lord Windermere in Ernst Lubitsch's 1925 silent film, "Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) ". 

 -K.SRadhakrishnan 
23-10-2015

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