TIOBE - Quotes Flashcards

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“_______, if the ____ _____ don’t set us a ____ _______, what on ______ is the ___ of them” - Algernon

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

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“I have only been _______ once… in a _________ of a _________ between ______ and a _____ person.” - Lane

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“I have only been married once… in a consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.” - Lane

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“The _______ is ______ pure and never ______.” - Algernon

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple” - Algernon

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“Washing one’s _____ ______ in ______.” - Algernon

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“Washing one’s clean linen in public.” - Algernon

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“A man who _______ without knowing _________ has a very ______ time of it.” - Algernon

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

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“I am ____ to ____ of _______, I wish to _______ we had a few _____ left.”- Jack

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“I am sick to death of cleverness, I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.” - Jack

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“________ produces no ___ whatsoever. If it did, it would ______ a ______ danger to the _____ classes” - Lady Bracknell

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“Education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would provide a serious danger to the upper classes.” - Lady Bracknell

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“________… what ___ should bring ___ anywhere.” - Jack

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“Pleasure… what else should bring one anywhere.”- Jack

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“My _______ was ____ from ____.” - Chasuble

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“My metaphor was drawn from bees.”- Chasuble

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“My ______.. can be _____ for almost any ________.” - Chasuble

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

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“I hope you have not been ______ a _____ life, pretending to be _____ and being really _____ all the time. That would be ________.” - Cecily

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“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

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“You can _____ on…” - Cecily to Algernon

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“You can go on..”- Cecily to Algernon

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“I ____ his _____ so much.” - Cecily

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“I like his hair so much.”- Cecily

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“The ____ seems to __ be the proper _____ for the ____.” - Gwendolen

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“The home seems to be the proper sphere for the man.”- Gwendolen

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“This is no ____ for ______ the ______ ___ of _____.”- Cecily

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

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“A ____ _______ has been _______ on ___ of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen

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“A gross deception has been practised on both of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen

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“In _____ of ___ ________, style, not ________ is the _____ thing.”- Gwendolen

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

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“When I _______ Lord _______, I had no _______ of any _____.”- Lady Bracknell

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“When I married Lord Bracknell, I had no fortune of any kind.”- Lady Bracknell

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“I do not _____ to _______ him.” - Lady B on Lord B

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“I do not propose to undeceive him.” - Lady B on Lord B

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“We live… in an ____ of _______.” - Lady Bracknell

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“We live.. in an age of surfaces.” - Lady Bracknell

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“He has _______, but he looks ________. What ____ can one ________.” Lady B on Algernon

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“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire.” - Lady B on Algernon

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“It is a _______ thing for a ____ to find out suddenly that all his _____ he has been ________ nothing but the _____.” - Jack

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