The Importance of Being Earnest - Key Quotations Flashcards
ACT 1 - “Really, if the _____ ______ don’t ___ __ a ____ ______, what on _____ is the ___ __ ____?” - Algernon
“Really, if the LOWER ORDERS don’t SET US a GOOD EXAMPLE, what on EARTH is the USE OF THEM?”
ACT 1 - “The truth is ______ ____ and _____ ______” - Algernon
“The truth is RARELY PURE and NEVER SIMPLE”
ACT 1 - “You can hardly imagine that I and ____ _________ would dream of allowing our ____ ________ - a girl _______ __ with the ______ ____ - to _____ into a _________, and form an ________ with a ______?” - Lady Bracknell “[______ out in ________ ___________]”
“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]”
ACT 1 - “The ___-_________ _______ for the _____ is ____ _____ ___” - Gwendolyn
“The OLD-FASHIONED RESPECT for the YOUNG is FAST DYING OUT”
ACT 1 - “But your ____ is ______” - Gwendolyn
“But your NAME is ERNEST”
ACT 1 - “Oh, that is ________, ____. You _____ ____ ________ ___ ________” - Jack
“Oh, that is NONSENSE, ALGY. You NEVER TALK ANYTHING BUT NONSENSE”
ACT 1 - “A ___ who _______ _______ _______ _______ has a ____ _______ ____ of __” - Algernon
“A MAN who MARRIES WITHOUT KNOWING BUNBURY has a VERY TEDIOUS TIME of IT”
ACT 1 - “I am ____ __ _____ of __________… I ____ to ________ we had a ___ _____ ____” - Jack
“I am SICK TO DEATH of CLEVERNESS… I WISH to GOODNESS we had a FEW FOOLS LEFT”
ACT 2 - “You ____ ____ __ ______, will you ___?” - Gwendolen
“You WILL CALL ME SISTER, will you NOT?”
ACT 2 - “My ________ was _____ from ____” - Dr. Chasuble
“My METAPHOR was DRAWN from BEES”
ACT 2 - “____ is ______ seen at the ____ ______ ________” - Gwendolen
“CAKE is RARELY seen at the BEST HOUSES NOWADAYS”
ACT 2 - “I ____ you have not been _______ a ______ ____, __________ to be ______ and being ______ ____ ___ ___ ____. That would be _________” - 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”
ACT 2 - “I _____ ____ upon ___ ____” - Dr. Chasuble
“I WOULD HANG upon HER LIPS”
ACT 3 - “In _______ of _____ __________, _____, not _________ is the _____ _____” - Gwendolen
“In MATTERS of GRAVE IMPORTANCE, STYLE, not SINCERITY is the VITAL THING”
ACT 3 - “How ______ to talk of the ________ of the _____! Where questions of ____-_________ are _________, ___ are __________ ______ us” - Gwendolen
“How ABSURD to talk of the EQUALITY of the SEXES! Where questions SELF-SACRIFICE are CONCERNED, MEN are INFINITELY BEYOND us”
