The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

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Lady Bracknell: To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
"Algernon: All women become like their mother. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. Jack: Is that clever? Algernon: It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilised life should be. Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You cannot go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. Algernon: We have. Jack: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? Algernon: The fools? Oh! About the clever people, of course. Jack: What fools!"
Reklam
"On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being earnest."
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I ll certainly try to forget the fact.
"... Algernon: ...You are the prettiest girl that I saw. Cecily: Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare. Algernon: They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in."
Jack:That's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Algernon:Nobody ever does.
Reklam
How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
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