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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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Несколько цитат себе на память:More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It’s one’s duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness . . .
whenever I do dine there I am always treated as a member of the family, and sent down with either no woman at all, or two.
in married life three is company and two is none.
[The sound of an electric bell is heard.] Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Society for the Prevention of Discontent among the Upper Orders.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Algernon. I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection. Cecily. I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest.
Cecily, I am very much hurt indeed to hear you broke it off. Particularly when the weather was so charming.
No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more.
I am more than content with what Mr. Moncrieff said. His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.
the number of engagements that go on seems to me considerably above the proper average that statistics have laid down for our guidance.
Lady Bracknell. To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago
I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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