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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
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