Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none."
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"You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. 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..."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. 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."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNONThen your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACKThat, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNONYes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"LADY BRACKNELLThirty-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. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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