Importance Of Being Ernest, Key Quotes Flashcards
Algernon: ‘Really, if the ______ ______ don’t ____ __ a _______ _________, what on ______ is the use of them.’- Act _____
Algernon: ‘Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them.’ -Act one
Algernon: ‘The ______ is ________ _____ and _______ ________.’ - Act ______
Algernon: ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ - Act 1
Lady Bracknell: ‘You could ________ ________ that I and Lord Bracknell would ______ of __________ our _____ __________- a girl _______ __ with __________ ______- to marry into a _________, and form ___ __________ _____ a __________’ - Act _______
Lady Bracknell: ‘You could hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter- a girl bought up with utmost care- to marry into a cloak room, and form an alliance with a parcel.’ -Act one
Gwendolen: ‘The ____-_________ respect for the ________ is ___________ ____’ -Act _____
Gwendolen: ‘The old-fashioned respect for the young is dying out’ - Act one
Gwendolen: ‘But your ______ __ ________’ -Act ______
Gwendolen: ‘But your name is Ernest’ -Act one
Jack: ‘Oh that is __________ ____, you ________ talk _____________ ____ ___________’ -Act ______
Jack: ‘Oh that is nonsense Algy, you never talk anything but nonsense’ - Act one
Miss Prism: ‘Alas! __. The _____________ unfortunately was _______________.’ - Act _____
Miss Prism: ‘Alas! No. The manuscript was unfortunately abandoned.’ - Act two
Algernon: ‘it is perfectly __________ to be _______ in _____________ for a man who is ____________ ______________ for a whole week with you in your __________ as a ________. I call it _____________.’ -Act ____
Algernon: ‘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 your guest. I call it grotesque.’
- Act two
Cecily: ‘I hope you have not been ___________ a __________ _______, pretending to be _________ and being really _______ ____ ___ ______. That would be ____________.’ -Act _____
Cecily: ‘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.’ - Act two
Chasuble: ‘ I _______ _____ _____ her _____’
- Act ____
Chasuble: ‘I would hang upon her lips’ -Act two
Gwendolen: ‘In matters of _______ ____________, _____, not _____________ is the _______ thing’
- Act ____
Gwendolen: ‘In matters of grave importance, style, not substance is the vital thing’
-Act three
Gwendolen: ‘How __________ to talk of the ____________ of the _______! Where questions of _____-____________ are concerned, men are __________ _________ us’
-Act ___
Gwendolen: ‘How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us’
-Act three
‘[They ______ into each other’s _____]’
-Act ____
‘[They fall into each other’s arms]’
- Act three
Lady Bracknell: ‘Never ________ ____________ of ________, _____________. Only people who ______ get _____ it do that.’
-Act ____
Lady Bracknell: ‘Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.’
-Act three
Lady Bracknell: ‘He has _______, but he _______ ____________. What more could ______ __________?’
-Act ____
Lady Bracknell: ‘He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more could one desire?’
-Act three
