Quotes & Sayings About The Importance Of Being Earnest

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

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

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

The importance of being earnest, — Oscar Wilde

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

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. — Tom Stoppard

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

I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away. — Shari Sebbens

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. — Oscar Wilde

I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it. — Peter Shaffer

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. — Oscar Wilde

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And
though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall
what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing) — V.S. Naipaul

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. — Lev A.C. Rosen

Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest. — Stephen King

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. — Oscar Wilde

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. — Anna Camp

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

An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present. — Oscar Wilde

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. — Kim Cattrall

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. — Oscar Wilde