The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

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.

Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education?

I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored to me. It has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years.

You are the son of my poor sister, Mrs. Moncrieff, and consequently Algernon’s elder brother.

Jack. On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.