Key Quotes Flashcards
“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example,__ __ ___ __ __ __ __ ___.” - Algernon
“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them.”
“The truth is __ __ __ __ __.” - Algernon
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”
You can ___ ____ that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of __ _ __ ___ - a girl brought up with the utmost care - __ __ __ _ __ ,and form an alliance with a parcel?” - Lady Bracknell
“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel?” - Lady Bracknell ‘sweeps out in majestic indignation’.
“The __ ___ ___ for the young is __ ___ __” - Gwendolen
‘The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.’ - Gwendolen
“But your __ _ __”- Gwendolen
“But your name is Ernest” - Gwendolen
“Oh that is ___ Algy, you never talk anything __ ____”- Jack
“Oh that is nonsense Algy, you never talk anything but nonsense.” - Jack
‘Alas! no. _ ___ _____ _ ___.’ - Miss Prism
‘Alas! no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned.’ - Miss Prism
'’It is perfectly ___ _ _ _ __ ___ __ _ who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a guest. _ _ _ ___.’’ -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 a guest. I call it grotesque.” - Algernon
“My poor wounded __!” // “My _ __ Gwendolen!” // “You will call me sister, _ _ _?”
“My poor wounded Cecily!” // “My sweet wronged Gwendolen!“ // “You will call me sister, will you not?” - Gwendolen / Cecily
“I hope __ _ _ been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked _ __ __ _ all the time. That __ _ ___.”
“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
'’i would _ __ _ __’’
'’I would hang upon her lips.’’ - Chasuble
'’In matters of _ __, style _ ____ is the vital thing.’’
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” - Gwendolen
“How absurd _ __ _ __ _ _ __! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, _ _ ___ __ _.” - Gwendolen
“How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.” - Gwendolen
[‘They _ __ __ ___ arms.’]
[‘They fall into each others arms’]
‘Never speak ___ _ ___, Algernon. Only people who _ _ _ _ _ _ .’
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.” - Lady Bracknell
