The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes

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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
" . . . it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing."	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest