Importance Of Being Earnest Quotes

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

In married life three is company and two none.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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

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.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.