The Importance of Being Earnest, Finish that Quote Flashcards
“… anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression…”
“As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for life.”
- Algernon Act 1
“I have often observed in married households the champagne is rarely of the first-rate brand.”
- Lane
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“Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?”
- Algernon Act 1
“Lane’s views on marriage seem rather lax. Really if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?…”
“They seem, as a class, to have no sense of moral responsibility.”
- Algernon
“When one is in town one amuses oneself…”
“When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring .”
- Jack Act 1
“I thought you had come up for pleasure?…”
“I call that business.”
- Algernon Act 1
“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…”
“…The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.”
- Algernon Act 1
“You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you as Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest…”
“You are the most earnest-looking person I have ever saw in my life.”
- Algernon Act 1
“The truth is rarely…”
“pure and never simple.”
- Algernon Act 1
“Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr Bunbury made up his mind…”
“whether he is going to live or die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1
“French songs I cannot quite possibly allow…”
“People always seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, or laugh, which is worse. But German sounds a thoroughly respectable language.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1
“We live, as I hope you know, Mr Worthing, in an age of ideals…”
“The fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provisional pulpits I am told.”
- Gwendolen Act 1
“An ideal of mine has always been to love someone of the name Ernest…”
“There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you.”
- Gwendolen Act 1
“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune…”
“To lose both looks like carelessness.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1
“Mr Worthing …. to be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag seems to me to display a contempt for the…”
“ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1.
