The Importance of Being Earnest, Finish that Quote

Question 1

“… anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression…”

Answer 1

“As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for life.”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 2

“I have often observed in married households the champagne is rarely of the first-rate brand.”
- Lane
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Answer 2

“Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 3

“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?…”

Answer 3

“They seem, as a class, to have no sense of moral responsibility.”
- Algernon

Question 4

“When one is in town one amuses oneself…”

Answer 4

“When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring .”
- Jack Act 1

Question 5

“I thought you had come up for pleasure?…”

Answer 5

“I call that business.”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 6

“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…”

Answer 6

“…The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 7

“You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you as Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest…”

Answer 7

“You are the most earnest-looking person I have ever saw in my life.”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 8

“The truth is rarely…”

Answer 8

“pure and never simple.”
- Algernon Act 1

Question 9

“Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr Bunbury made up his mind…”

Answer 9

“whether he is going to live or die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1

Question 10

“French songs I cannot quite possibly allow…”

Answer 10

“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

Question 11

“We live, as I hope you know, Mr Worthing, in an age of ideals…”

Answer 11

“The fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provisional pulpits I am told.”
- Gwendolen Act 1

Question 12

“An ideal of mine has always been to love someone of the name Ernest…”

Answer 12

“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

Question 13

“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune…”

Answer 13

“To lose both looks like carelessness.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1

Question 14

“Mr Worthing …. to be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag seems to me to display a contempt for the…”

Answer 14

“ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 1.

Question 15

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people…”

Answer 15

“The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”
- Jack Act 1

Question 16

“The story of your romantic origin, as relayed to me by my mamma, with unpleasing comments…”

Answer 16

“has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature.”
- Gwendolen Act 1

Question 17

“But I don’t like German…”

Answer 17

“It isn’t at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look perfectly plain after my German lesson.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 18

“Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious…”

Answer 18

“Sometimes he is so serious that I think that he can’t be quite well.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 19

“I have never met any really wicked person before…”

Answer 19

“I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid that he will look like everyone else.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 20

“If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner…”

Answer 20

“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 Act 2

Question 21

Enter Jack… he is dressed in the

Answer 21

deepest mourning, with crepe hatband and black gloves

Question 22

“My duty as a gentlemen…”

Answer 22

“has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.”
- Algernon Act 2

Question 23

{ Cecily’s diary }
“You see, it’s really just a young girl’s record of her own thoughts and impressions…”

Answer 23

“and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you’ll buy a copy.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 24

“Cecily Cardew? What a sweet name! Something tells me…”

Answer 24

“that we are going to be great friends. I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions of people are never wrong.”
- Gwedolen Act 2

Question 25

“How secretive of him!…”

Answer 25

“He grows more interesting hourly.”
- Gwendolen Act 2

Question 26

“Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Mr Worthing into an engagement? How dare you?…”

Answer 26

“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manner. When I see a spade I call it a spade.”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 27

The presence of the servants creates a …

Answer 27

restraining influence, under which both girls chafe

Question 28

“Bread and butter please. Cake is…”

Answer 28

“rarely seen at the best households nowadays.”
- Gwendolen Act 2

Question 29

“From the moment I saw you I distrusted you…”

Answer 29

“I felt you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first impressions of people are invariably right.”
- Gwendolen Act 2

Question 30

“…It is very painful for me…”

Answer 30

“to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position.”
- Jack Act 2

Question 31

“Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is…”

Answer 31

“The most wonderful bunbury I’ve ever had in my life.”
- Algernon Act 2

Question 32

“Well I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner…”

Answer 32

“The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”
- Algernon Act 2

Question 33

“Cecily, ever since I first looked upon your wonderful and incomparable beauty I have dared to…”

Answer 33

“love you wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.”
- Algernon Act 2

Question 34

“You silly boy! Of course…”

Answer 34

“Why, we have been engaged for the last three months!”
- Cecily Act 2

Question 35

“Ernest has a very strong and upright nature. He is the very soul of truth and honour…”

Answer 35

“Disloyalty would be as impossible to him as deception.”
-Gwendolen Act 2

Question 36

“True. In matters of grave importance…”

Answer 36

“style not sincerity is the vital thing.”
- Gwendolen Act 3

Question 37

“Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr.Bunbury was interested in social legislation…”

Answer 37

“If so, he is well punished for his morbidity.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 3

Question 38

“A moment, Mr Worthing. A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And in the funds!…”

Answer 38

“Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at her.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 3

Question 39

“We live, I regret to say…”

Answer 39

“in an age of surfaces.”
- Lady Bracknell Act 3

Question 40

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that…”

Answer 40

“all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
- Jack Act 3