"The Importance of Being Earnest" Quotes

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

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

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.' Miss Prism Lady Bracknell Cecily Cardew 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 Algernon Moncrieff Jack Worthing Gwendolen Fairfax

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.' Jack Worthing Lady Bracknell Algernon Moncrieff Miss Prism

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

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

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

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