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Sep 20, 2012
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My favorite exchange is still:
LADY BRACKNELL: It really makes no matter, Algernon. I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
ALGERNON: I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
And then second:
JACK: I have lost both my parents.
LADY BRACKNELL: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. And of course it's lines like these that makes the play hold up, no matter how many yea ...more
LADY BRACKNELL: It really makes no matter, Algernon. I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
ALGERNON: I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.
And then second:
JACK: I have lost both my parents.
LADY BRACKNELL: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. And of course it's lines like these that makes the play hold up, no matter how many yea ...more
This is another book I wasn't crazy about when I read it in my teens, and really, really enjoy now (....a score or so years later). I guess petty people who are half bonkers, witty turns of phrase and skewering the idle class has grown on me.
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Wickedly funny.
Nov 15, 2010
Martin
marked it as owned-to-read
Jun 09, 2012
Natalie
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Hannu Venesperä
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Ryan Shuman
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Nov 24, 2012
Denise
marked it as to-read
