Importance Of Being Earnest Quotes - Page 2

• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cake, Missing, Tea

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

  Oscar Wilde

  Calling, Half, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Desire, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.135

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• If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Littles, Educated

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Cooking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Thinking, Sensible

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Luck, Style, Matter

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Oscar Wilde

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• Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spheres, Different, Mask

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.47, Heinemann

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• The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Littles, Way

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.133

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• Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Amusement, Want, Serious

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.112

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• I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Essence, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Philosophical, Diaries

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Culture, Half, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (1980). “Poems”

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• I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Favour, Moments

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing

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• 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 cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.39

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Lying, Simple

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.368, Wordsworth Editions

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• To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hands, Ordinary, Bags

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38

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• A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Desire, Married

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• I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

  Oscar Wilde

  Deny, Earnest, Ifs

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.701, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reading, Culture, Half

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.10

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• Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Men, Forgive Me

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

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