sophie heawood
Feature writer for The Times. I have also contributed to the Guardian, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Grazia, NME, Time Out, and others. I've spent the past couple of years based in LA, interviewing Hollywood celebrities for The Times, but I'm now back in lovely London Town for good.
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Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN
What an appalling philosophy that sounds! To attempt to classify you, Mrs. Cheveley, would be an impertinence. But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.
MRS. CHEVELEY
Oh, I’m neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN
You prefer to be natural?
MRS. CHEVELEY
Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
