I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
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