"The Importance of Being Earnest" Quotes

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1. 'Health is the primary duty of life.' Gwendolen Fairfax Lady Bracknell Algernon Moncrieff Jack Worthing

2. 'I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.' Canon Chasuble Merriman Lane Miss Prism

3. 'To be born, or at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.' Lady Bracknell Cecily Cardew Miss Prism Gwendolen Fairfax

4. 'I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.' Cecily Cardew Gwendolen Fairfax Jack Worthing Algernon Moncrieff

5. 'Well I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs'. Canon Chasuble Lane Jack Worthing Algernon Moncrieff

6. 'Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded.' Algernon Moncrieff Miss Prism Lady Bracknell Jack Worthing

7. 'She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability.' Jack Worthing Canon Chasuble Merriman Lady Bracknell

8. 'I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one.' Cecily Cardew Canon Chasuble Miss Prism Jack Worthing

9. 'The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.' Miss Prism Gwendolen Fairfax Cecily Cardew Lady Bracknell

10. 'To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.' Miss Prism Lady Bracknell Cecily Cardew Lane