Quotes on Importance Of Being Earnest

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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

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.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.