Best 14 quotes in «importance of being earnest quotes» category

Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public temptation. ... Chausuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chausuble: And often, I´ve been told, not even to her.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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.

There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.

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

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

In married life three is company and two none.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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