Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) - Key Quotes Flashcards
“The truth is _____ ____ and _____ _____”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple” - Algernon (Act 1)
“Really, if the _____ ______ don’t ___ __ _ ____ _____, what on earth is ___ ___ __ ____?”
“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them” - Algernon (Act 1)
“You can ______ _____ that I and Lord Bracknell would _____ of ________ ___ ___ _______, brought up in the utmost care - to ______ ___ _ _________, and _____ an ________ with a _____”
“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter, brought up in the utmost care - to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel” - Lady Bracknell
“The ___-______ _____ for the ____ is fast ______ out”
“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out” - Gwendolen (Act 1)
“____ your _____ is ______”
“But your name is Ernest” - Gwendolen (Act 1)
“Oh that is ________ Algy, you never ____ _______ but ________”
“Oh that is nonsense Algy, you never talk anything but nonsense” - Jack (Act 1)
“Alas! no. The __________ was ___________ ___________”
“Alas! no. The manuscript was unfortunately abandoned.” - Miss Prism (Act 2)
“It is _________ ________ to be in ____ _________ for a man who is actually _______ for a ______ _____ with you in your ______ as a _______. I call it _______.”
“It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.” - Algernon (Act 2)
“My _____ _______ Cecily!” // “My _____ ______ Gwendolyn!” // “You will ____ __ _____, will you not?”
“My poor wounded Cecily!” // “My sweet wronged Gwendolen!” // “You will call me sister, will you not?” - Gwendolen/Cecily (Act 2)
“I hope you have not been _______ a _____ ____, pretending to be ______ and being _____ _____ all the time. That would be ________.”
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” - Cecily (Act 2)
“I would ____ ____ her ____”
“I would hang upon her lips” - Chasuble (Act 2)
“In matters of _____ ________, ____, not _______ is the vital thing”
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” - Gwendolen (Act 3)
“How _____ to talk of the _______ of the ______! Where questions of ____-______ are concerned, ___ are ________ ______ us.”
“How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes” Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.” - Gwendolen (Act 3)
“[They ___ into ____ ______ ____]”
“[They fall into each others arms.]” (Act 3)
“Never _____ ___________ of _____, Algernon. Only people who ____ _____ ____ __ do that.”
“Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.” - Lady Bracknell (Act 3)
“He has ________, but he _____ ________. What more _____ ___ ______?”
“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more could one desire?” - Lady Bracknell (Act 3)
“…I’ve now realised___ ___ ____ _____ in my ____ the vital _________ __ ______ ______.”
“…I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.” - Jack (Act 3)
“The amount of _____ in London who _____ with their ________ is _________ _________”
“the amount of girls in London who flirt with their husbands is perfectly scandalous” - Algernon (Act 1)
“Mr ________! ____, sir, from this ____-_________ _______. It is most _________.”
“Mr Worthing! Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.” - Lady Bracknell (Act 1)
“To lose ___ _______, Mr Worthing, may be ________ as __________; to lose ____looks like _________.”
“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be considered as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” - Lady Bracknell (Act 1)
