Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?"
Oscar Wilde, 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 That is exactly what things were originally made for."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"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."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."
Oscar Wilde, 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."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
Oscar Wilde, 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."
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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