ACT ONE Flashcards
(50 cards)
I didn’t think __ ______ to _____ ___
I didnt think it polite to listen sir
Lane
The room is __________ and _______ furnished
The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished
stage directions
I dont play ________- any one can play ________- but I play with ____________ _____________
I dont play accurately- any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression
Algy
Good Heavens! Is _____ so _______ as that?
Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?
Algy
Lane about accidental marriage: ‘‘That was in a consequence of a ________ between ____ and a ___________”
'’That was in a consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person”
'’Lane’s views on marriage seem ________ ___. Really if the _______ ______don’t set us a _____ ________, what on earth is ___ ___ __ ____? They seem as a ____ to have no sense of ____ __________’’
'’Lane’s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? The seem as a class to have no sense of moral responsibility’’ Algy
Algy: “ What brings you up to town?”
“ __ _________ __________! ____ ____ _____ __ ___ ____?
“Oh pleasure pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere?”
Algy asks Jack ‘‘what on earth do you do there?” Jack responds:
“When one is in the town ______…”
“When one is in the town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
algy asks jack ‘‘Got nice neighbours in your part of Shropshire?” Jaxk responds:
“Perfectly _____! Never ___….”
“Perfectly horrid! Never speak to any one of them.”
Jack comments of cucumber sandwiches and asks “ Why such _______ _______ in one __ ____?”
” Why such reckless extravagance in one so young?”
Algy on Jack flirting with Gwen: “ My dear fellow the way _____________ with Gwondolen is _______________”
” My dear fellow the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful”
Quote showing marriage to be a transaction and not romance.
Jack declares love: “I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town _______ to ____ to her.” Algy’s responce: “ I thought you came up for___…”
” I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her”
“I thought had came up for pleasure?… I call that business”
Algernon on proposing: “I don’t see anything ____ in _______. It is very _______ to be in ____. But there is _______ _________about a ______ _________’’
“I don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal’’
algernon on divorce ‘‘_______ are made in ______”
“Divorces are made in heaven”
’'’girls never _____ the men they ____ with. Girls don’t think it _______.’’
'’girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right.’’
jacks absurd comment on reading inscriptions of briefcases ‘‘it is a ____ _____ things to ____ a _____ ________’
’’ It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private briefcase.’’
After Jack says ‘’ Cecily happens to be my ____’’ algy asks ‘‘But why does she call herself _____ _______ if she is your aunt’’
To which Jack says ‘‘some aunts are ____ some aunts are not ____. Surely that is a matter an ___ may be _______ to ______ for _________’’
‘Cecily happens to be my aunt’’ ‘‘some aunts are tall some aunts are not tall. Surely that is a matter an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself’’
Algernon drip feeds info about his knowledge of the inscription on the cig case and reveals ‘‘Yes, but why does your ______ you call her _____? ‘From _____ ______, with her _____ ______ to her _______ ___ _____’
‘Yes, but why does your aunt call you her uncle?’
‘From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack’
To lose one ______, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a ________; to lose ___looks like __________.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
I was in a _________—a somewhat ____, ______leather handbag, with handles to it—an ________handbag, in fact
I was in a handbag—a somewhat large, black leather handbag, with handles to it—an ordinary handbag, in fact
“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would ______of allowing our only daughter—a girl brought up with the _______ _____—to marry into a _____-_____, and form an alliance with a ______?”
“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter—a girl brought up with the utmost care—to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”
Algernon insists Jack’s name is earnest
‘’You are the most _______ looking person I ever saw in my life’’
Algernon insists Jack’s name is earnest
‘’You are the most earnest looking person I ever saw in my life’’
Jack comes clean
‘’Well my name is _______ in town and _______ in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country’’
Jack comes clean
‘’Well my name is earnest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country’’
Jack:
‘’It is very ______ to talk like a ______ when one isnt a ______. It creates a false ______’’
Jack:
‘’It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isnt a dentist. It creates a false impression’’
