"The Importance of Being Earnest" Quotes

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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.

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.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.