Importance Of Being Earnest Quotes

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

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

In married life three is company and two none.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.