"LORD ILLINGWORTH. It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

This excellent shit-test destruction is from an outstanding play you should all have read (or seen): A woman of no importance by Oscar Wilde. Actually, everything by Oscar Wilde. Most importantly the dandy characters like Lord Illingworth or Lord Henry Wotton from the Picture of Dorian Grey.

A woman of no importance is the best one i've read (with regards to seduction technique). It's a masterpiece full of banter, push-pull, and all kinds of seductive character traits and techniques, but also a lot of general wisdom of life and poetry in language.

It's just a 90 page thing and you should be able to read it in little time.

Have fun with it. There are statements in it like: "So much marriage is certainly not becoming. Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

in relation to a recent rant by blackdevildisco about you guys downvoting the gay pick-up thread. Oscar Wilde was gay too (got sentenced to 2 years of forced labor for it...) and an absolute master seducer. He's one of the examples in Robert Greenes: The Art of Seduction an excellent book and one of the very few that I've read more than once.

edit: here's a link to the free e-book from the gutenberg project.