match-girls

Updated: June 5, 2025

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality; and if a writer insists upon analysing the upper classes, he might just as well write of match-girls and costermongers at once. However, my dear Cyril, I will not detain you any further just here.

Oscar Wilde - Intentions