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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
In married life, three is company, and two is none.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)