The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar WildeSözler ve Alıntılar
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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.
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"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.
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"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!"
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"...
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."
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Jack:That's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.
Algernon:Nobody ever does.
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