the importance of being earnest Flashcards
“Nor do I in any way _______ of the modern ________ for ________. I consider it ______.”
“Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy for invalids. I consider it morbid.”
- lady bracknell
- act 1
“_________ is like a ________ ______ fruit : touch it and the _____ is gone.”
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit : touch it and the bloom is gone.”
- lady bracknell
- act 1
“Do you _____?”
“Do you smoke?”
- lady bracknell
- act 1
“My ______, you seem to be __________ signs of __________.”
“My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.”
- lady bracknell
- act 3
“ We live, I ______ to say, in an ___ of ________”.
“ We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”.
- lady bracknell
- act 3
“ I am not in favour of long ___________. They give people the ___________ of finding out each others ________ before ________”
“ I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each others character before marriage”
- lady bracknell
- act 3
“In ____, I am _____ _____”
“In fact, I am never wrong”
- gwendolen
- act 1
“The only really ___ name is ______”
“The only really safe name is Ernest”
- gwendolen
- act 1
“My first __________ of people are never _____”
“My first impressions of people are never wrong”
- gwendolen
- act 2
“ You will ____ me ______ will you not?”
“ You will call me sister will you not?”
- gwendolen
- act 2
“I never ______, except in my __________.”
“I never change, except in my affections.”
- gwendolen
- act 3
“ In matters of _____ importance, _____, not _________, is the _____ thing”.
“ In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing”.
- gwendolen
- act 3
“ If you are not too ____, I will ____ here for you all my ____”
“ If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life”
- gwendolen
- act 3
“ I don’t think I could ____ to catch a ________ man. I shouldn’t know what to t____to him about.”
“ I don’t think I could care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him, about.”
- cecily
- act 2
“What an _________ boy he is! I like his ____ so much”
“What an impetuous boy he is! I like his hair so much”
- cecily
- act 2
“There is no time for wearing the _______ ____ of _______”
“There is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners”
- cecily
- act 2
“ I have never _____ anyone in the _____ but you”
“ I have never loved anyone in the world but you”
- jack
- act 1
“My ____ little ______”
“My dear little cecily”
- jack
- act 2
“it is very _______ for me to be ______ to _____ the _____.”
“it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth.”
- jack
- act 2
“I’ve now ________ for the first time in my life the _____ Importance of Being _______.”
“I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
- jack
- act 3
“ It is a ________ thing for a man to find out ________ that all his ____ he has been speaking _______ but the _____.”
“ It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.”
- jack
- act 3
“I don’t know that I am much __________ in your ______ life, lane”
“I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life, lane”
- algernon
- act 1
“If the lower ______ don’t set us a good _______, what on _____ is the use of them?”
“If the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”
- algernon
- act 1
“________ are made in ______”.
“Divorces are made in heaven”.
- algernon
- act 1
“It’s simply _______ one’s clean _____ in ______.”
“It’s simply washing one’s clean linen in public.”
- algernon
- act 1
“Yes, but I have not been __________ for _____”
“Yes, but I have not been christened for years”
- algernon
- act 2
“ I killed _______ this afternoon…I mean ____ Bunbury ____ this _________.”
“ I killed Bunbury this afternoon…I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.”
- algernon
- act 3
“I would ____ upon your ____…. I spoke ______________ - my metaphor was _____ from ____”
“I would hang upon your lips…. I spoke metaphorically - my metaphor was drawn from bees”
- dr. chasuble
- act 2
“ …as a man ____, so shall he ____”
“ …as a man sows, so shall he reap”
- miss prism
- act 2
“I didn’t think it ______ to ______, sir.”
“I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.”
- lane
- act 1
“ It is not a very __________ subject. I never think of it ______.”
“ It is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.”
- lane
- act 1
