What Is Funny About the Importance of Being Earnest
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde335,545 ratings, 4.18 average rating, 11,264 reviews
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"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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 whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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!"
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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?"
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
That is exactly what things were originally made for."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"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."
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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