The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes
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- Created on: 17-05-18 13:45
Lane
I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.
Algy
Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?
Lane
I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.
Algy
If the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Jack
When one is in town one amuses oneself.
Algy
I call that business.
Algy
It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.
Jack
It is a very ungentlemanly thing to do to read a private cigarette case.
Jack
My dear fellow, what on earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall...
Stage
Follows Algernon around the room.
Algy
But why does your aunt call you her uncle.
Jack
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
Algy
I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying. I want to tell you the rules.
Lady Bracknell
Poor husband's death... looks quite twenty years younger.
Lane
There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir.
Algy
I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
Lady Bracknell
I think it is high time that Mr Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or die.
Lady Bracknell
Health is the primary duty of life. I am always telling that to your poor uncle, but he never seems to take much notice.
Jack
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl.
Gwendolen
I often wish that in public, at any rate, you had been more demonstrative.
Gwendolen
For me you have always had an irresistible fascination.
Jack
I must get christened at once - I mean we must get married at once.
Gwendolen
But you haven't proposed to me yet.
Gwendolen
Men often propose for practice.
Stage
He tries to rise; she restrains him.
Lady Bracknell
It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
Stage
Looks in her pocket for note-book and pencil.
Jack
I prefer standing.
Lady Bracknell
There are far too many idle men in London.
Lady Bracknell
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.
Lady Bracknell
The unfashionable side.
Lady Bracknell
That seems like carelessness.
Lady Bracknell
Make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent.
Miss Prism
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people.
Cecily
I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of life.
Cecily
[Memory] usually chronicles the things that have never happened.
Miss Prism
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Dr Chasuble
Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil, I would hang upon her lips.
Cecily
I am afraid he will look just like everybody else.
Algy
You are the prettiest girl I ever saw.
Cecily
I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Algy
Visible personification of absolute perfection.
Cecily
Why, we have been engaged for the last three months.
Cecily
It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once.
Algy
Do you mean to say you could not love me if I had some other name?
Gwendolen
I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions of people are never wrong.
Gwendolen
The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.
Gwendolen
How secretive of him! He grows more interesting hourly.
Gwendolen
But even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others.
Gwendolen
Sugar is not fashionable anymore.
Gwendolen
From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful.
Cecily
A gross deception has been practiced on both of us.
Gwendolen
You will call me sister, will you not?
Miss Prism
I admit with shame that I do not know.
Stage
Exit Jack in great excitement.
Gwendolen
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Jack
The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer.
Jack
Yes - mother!
Lady Bracknell
You are the son of my poor sister, Mrs Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon's elder brother.
Jack
Cecily - how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother.
Jack
I always told you Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I?
Gwendolen
My own Ernest! I felt from the first that you could have no other name.
Jack
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for man to find out suddenly all his life he had been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
Jack
I have now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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