The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right.

Algernon. 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. Jack. I am quite aware of the fact, and I don’t propose to discuss modern culture. It isn’t the sort of thing one should talk of in private. I simply want my cigarette case back.

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

You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.

Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.

make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over.

Never met such a Gorgon

In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair

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

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

Jackass lol

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

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

It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn’t been broken off at least once.

think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.