The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has bee...

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, ind...

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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

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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.

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JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

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My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very es...

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The Importance of Being Earnest