The Importance Of Being Earnest Quotes

Question 1

“Really, if the _____ ______ don’t ___ __ a ____ _______, ____ on _____ is the ___ of ____”

Answer 1

“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them”

Question 2

“The _____ is ______ ____ and _____ ______”

Answer 2

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”

Question 3

“A ___ who _______ without _______ _______ has a very _______ ____ of it.”

Answer 3

“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”

Question 4

“You can ______ _______ that I and Lord Bracknell would _____ of ________ ___ ____ ________ […] to _____ into a _________, and ____ an ________ with a ______?”

Answer 4

“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?”

Question 5

Lady Bracknell [ ______ out in ________ ___________ ]

Answer 5

Lady Bracknell [sweeps out in majestic indignation]

Question 6

“The ___-_________ _______ for the _____ is ____ _____ out.”

Answer 6

“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”

Question 7

“When ___ is in ____ ___ ______ _______. When ___ is in the _______ one ______ other ______. It is ___________ ______.”

Answer 7

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

Question 8

“My _____ has ______ been to ____ _______ of the ____ of ______.”

Answer 8

“My ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest.”

Question 9

“___ I _______ to you now?”

Answer 9

“May I propose to you now?”

Question 10

“________ are ____ in ______”

Answer 10

“Divorces are made in heaven”

Question 11

“Oh that is ________ Algy, you _____ ____ ________ but ________”

Answer 11

“Oh that is nonsense Algy, you never talk anything but nonsense”

Question 12

“Alas! no. The __________ _____________ was _________.”

Answer 12

“Alas! no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned.”

Question 13

“My ______…can be _______ for almost any ________”

Answer 13

“My sermon…can be adapted for almost any occasion”

Question 14

“I ____ you have not been _______ _ ______ ____, __________ to be ______ and being ______ ____ ___ the ____. That would be _________.”

Answer 14

“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.”

Question 15

“The ____ seems to __ to __ the ______ ______ for the ___”

Answer 15

“The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man”

Question 16

“This is __ ____ for _______ the _______ ____ of manners”

Answer 16

“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners”

Question 17

“A _____ _________ has been _________ on ____ of us”

Answer 17

“A gross deception has been practised on both of us”

Question 18

“You ____ call me ______, ____ you ___?”

Answer 18

“You will call me sister, will you not?”

Question 19

“From the ______ I saw you I __________ ___. I ____ that you were _____ and _________”

Answer 19

“From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful”

Question 20

“____ is ______ seen at the ____ ______ ________”

Answer 20

“Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays”

Question 21

“In _______ of _____ __________, _____, not _________ is the _____ thing.”

Answer 21

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”

Question 22

“We ____…in an ___ of ________”

Answer 22

“We live…in an age of surfaces”

Question 23

“He ___ _______, but he _____ __________. What ____ can one ______?”

Answer 23

“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

Question 24

“How ______ to talk of the ________ of the _____! Where _________ of ____-_________ are _________, men are __________ ______ us.”

Answer 24

“How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.”

Question 25

“Never _____ _______________ of _______, Algernon. Only ______ who ____ get ____ it do that.”

Answer 25

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

Question 26

“Why should there be ___ ___ ___ ___, and _______ for _____?”

Answer 26

“Why should there be one law for men, and another for women?”

Question 27

“You’re the ___ of my ____ _____.”

Answer 27

“You’re the son of my poor sister.”

Question 28

“It is a ________ _____ for a man to find out ________ that ___ ___ ____ he has been ________ _______ but the _____.”

Answer 28

“It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.”

Question 29

“…I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

Answer 29

“…I’ve now ________ for the _____ ____ in my ____ the _____ _________ of _____ _______.”