Best 4 quotes in «the importance of being earnest quotes» category

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.

My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.