The Importance of Being Earnest: Quotes Flashcards
Algernon: “Really, if the _____ ______ don’t set us a ____ _______, what on earth is the ___ of them?”
Algernon: “Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”
Jack: “When one is in ____ one ______ _______. When one is in the _______ one ______ _____ ______. It is ___________ ______”
Jack: “When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
Algy: “________ are made in ______”
Algy: “Divorces are made in heaven”
Algy: “The _____ is rarely ____ and never _____.”
Algy: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Algy: “A man who _______ without _______ _______ has a very _______ ____ of it.”
Algy: “A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”
Lady Bracknell: “Your _____ would have to ____ ________. ___________ he is __________ to that.”
Lady Bracknell: “Your uncle would have to dine upstairs. Fortunately he is accustomed to that.”
Gwendolen: “____ don’t ____ to me about the _______”
Gwendolen: “Pray don’t talk to me about the weather”
Gwendolen: “my _____ has always been to ____ ____ ___ of the ____ of _______.”
Gwendolen: “my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of Earnest.”
Jack: “Well… ___ I _______ now?”
Jack: “Well… may I propose now?”
Lady Bracknell: “An __________ should come on a _____ ____ as a ________, ________ or __________”
Lady Bracknell: “An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant”
Lady Bracknell: “You can ______ _______ that I and Lord Bracknell would _____ of ________ our only daughter […] to _____ into a _________, and form an ________ with a ______?”
Lady Bracknell: “You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter […] to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel?”
Algy: “The only way to ______ to a _____ is to ____ ____ to her if she’s ______, and to some one else, if she’s _____.”
Algy: “The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she’s pretty, and to some one else, if she’s plain.”
Miss Prism: “The __________ unfortunately was _________.”
Miss Prism: “The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned.”
Dr Chasuble: “I would ____ upon her ____.”
Dr Chasuble: “I would hang upon her lips.”
Cecily: “I hope you have not been _______ a ______ ____, pretending to be ______ and being ______ ____ all this ____. That would be _________.”
Cecily: “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all this time. That would be hypocrisy.”
