Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs."
Importance Of Being Earnest quotes
Importance Of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read."
Oscar Wilde
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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
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"It is awfully hard work doing nothing."
Oscar Wilde
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"Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that."
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"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."
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"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
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"I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
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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."
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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."
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"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"
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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."
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"In married life three is company and two none."
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"A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it."
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"A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing."
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