Key Quotes Flashcards
Earnest
my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
Lady Bracknell
Mr Worthing! Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.
Lady Bracknell
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Lady Bracknell
to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel.
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.
Algernon
All women become like their mothers. That is the tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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.”
Lady Bracknell
The unfashionable side. I thought there was something. However, that could easily be altered.
Lady Bracknell
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
Lane’s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Lady Bracknell
Sit down immediately. Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Jack
her mother is perfectly unbearable. Never met such a gorgan
Miss Prism
As a man sows, so shall he reap
Algernon
you don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none
Jack
My name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country
