IOBE Quotes

Question 1

‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple’

Answer 1

• Algernon.

Themes: Deception, Disguise, Foreshadowing

Question 2

‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.’

Answer 2

-Algernon.

Themes: Gender, Age,

Question 3

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

Answer 3

-Algernon.

Themes: Role of the Dandy,

Question 4

‘I hope you have not been living a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy’

Answer 4

-Cecily.

Themes: Irony, Disguise, Deception, Inverted Expectation

Question 5

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

Answer 5

-Algernon.

Themes: Absurdity, Role of the Dandy, Fickleness,

Question 6

‘In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.’

Answer 6

Themes: Role of the Dandy, Comic Inversion,

Question 7

‘Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. only people who can’t get into it do that.’

Answer 7

• Lady Bracknell

Themes: Social Satire, Comedy of Manners,

Question 8

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

Answer 8

-Jack

Themes: Representations of Ordinary People, Social Satire

Question 9

‘She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.’

Answer 9

• Jack

Themes: Lady Bracknell,

Question 10

‘Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.’

Answer 10

• Gwendolen

Themes: Love and Romance, Absurdity,