The Importance Of Being Earnest Quotes Flashcards
“Really, if the _____ ______ don’t ___ __ a ____ _______, ____ on _____ is the ___ of ____”
“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them”
“The _____ is ______ ____ and _____ ______”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”
“A ___ who _______ without _______ _______ has a very _______ ____ of it.”
“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”
“You can ______ _______ that I and Lord Bracknell would _____ of ________ ___ ____ ________ […] to _____ into a _________, and ____ an ________ with a ______?”
“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 [ ______ out in ________ ___________ ]
Lady Bracknell [sweeps out in majestic indignation]
“The ___-_________ _______ for the _____ is ____ _____ out.”
“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
“When ___ is in ____ ___ ______ _______. When ___ is in the _______ one ______ other ______. It is ___________ ______.”
“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
“My _____ has ______ been to ____ _______ of the ____ of ______.”
“My ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest.”
“___ I _______ to you now?”
“May I propose to you now?”
“________ are ____ in ______”
“Divorces are made in heaven”
“Oh that is ________ Algy, you _____ ____ ________ but ________”
“Oh that is nonsense Algy, you never talk anything but nonsense”
“Alas! no. The __________ _____________ was _________.”
“Alas! no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned.”
“My ______…can be _______ for almost any ________”
“My sermon…can be adapted for almost any occasion”
“I ____ you have not been _______ _ ______ ____, __________ to be ______ and being ______ ____ ___ the ____. That would be _________.”
“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.”
“The ____ seems to __ to __ the ______ ______ for the ___”
“The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man”
“This is __ ____ for _______ the _______ ____ of manners”
“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners”
“A _____ _________ has been _________ on ____ of us”
“A gross deception has been practised on both of us”
“You ____ call me ______, ____ you ___?”
“You will call me sister, will you not?”
“From the ______ I saw you I __________ ___. I ____ that you were _____ and _________”
“From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful”
“____ is ______ seen at the ____ ______ ________”
“Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays”
“In _______ of _____ __________, _____, not _________ is the _____ thing.”
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”
“We ____…in an ___ of ________”
“We live…in an age of surfaces”
“He ___ _______, but he _____ __________. What ____ can one ______?”
“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”
“How ______ to talk of the ________ of the _____! Where _________ of ____-_________ are _________, men are __________ ______ us.”
“How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.”
