TIOBE - Quotes Flashcards
“_______, if the ____ _____ don’t set us a ____ _______, what on ______ 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?” - Algernon
“I have only been _______ once… in a _________ of a _________ between ______ and a _____ person.” - Lane
“I have only been married once… in a consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.” - Lane
“The _______ is ______ pure and never ______.” - Algernon
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple” - Algernon
“Washing one’s _____ ______ in ______.” - Algernon
“Washing one’s clean linen in public.” - Algernon
“A man who _______ without knowing _________ has a very ______ time of it.” - Algernon
“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.” - Algernon
“I am ____ to ____ of _______, I wish to _______ we had a few _____ left.”- Jack
“I am sick to death of cleverness, I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.” - Jack
“________ produces no ___ whatsoever. If it did, it would ______ a ______ danger to the _____ classes” - Lady Bracknell
“Education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would provide a serious danger to the upper classes.” - Lady Bracknell
“________… what ___ should bring ___ anywhere.” - Jack
“Pleasure… what else should bring one anywhere.”- Jack
“My _______ was ____ from ____.” - Chasuble
“My metaphor was drawn from bees.”- Chasuble
“My ______.. can be _____ for almost any ________.” - Chasuble
“My sermon… can be adapted for almost any occasion.”- Chasuble
“I hope you have not been ______ a _____ life, pretending to be _____ and being really _____ all the time. 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.” - Cecily
“You can _____ on…” - Cecily to Algernon
“You can go on..”- Cecily to Algernon
“I ____ his _____ so much.” - Cecily
“I like his hair so much.”- Cecily
“The ____ seems to __ be the proper _____ for the ____.” - Gwendolen
“The home seems to be the proper sphere for the man.”- Gwendolen
“This is no ____ for ______ the ______ ___ of _____.”- Cecily
“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners.”- Cecily
“A ____ _______ has been _______ on ___ of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen
“A gross deception has been practised on both of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen
“In _____ of ___ ________, style, not ________ is the _____ thing.”- Gwendolen
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”- Gwendolen
“When I _______ Lord _______, I had no _______ of any _____.”- Lady Bracknell
“When I married Lord Bracknell, I had no fortune of any kind.”- Lady Bracknell
“I do not _____ to _______ him.” - Lady B on Lord B
“I do not propose to undeceive him.” - Lady B on Lord B
“We live… in an ____ of _______.” - Lady Bracknell
“We live.. in an age of surfaces.” - Lady Bracknell
“He has _______, but he looks ________. What ____ can one ________.” Lady B on Algernon
“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire.” - Lady B on Algernon
“It is a _______ thing for a ____ to find out suddenly that all his _____ he has been ________ nothing but the _____.” - Jack
“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
