key quotes Flashcards
algy: “the truth is rarely pure and …
algy: “the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either”
algy: “the amount of women who flirt with…
algy: “the amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is scandalous. It is simply washing ones clean linen in public”
algy: “it is improtant not to keep a business …
algy: “it is improtant not to keep a business engagement if one wants to retan any sense of beauty of life”
gwen to jack: “few parents nowadays pay any regard to what…
gwen to jack: “few parent nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The oldfashioned respect for the young is fast dying out”
cecily to gwen: “flowers are as common in…
cecily to gwen: “flowers are as common in the country as people are in london”
algy and bracknell “i hear her hair has…
algy and bracknell “i hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief”
algy to jack “one must be serious about…
algy to jack “one must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life”
bracknell “long engagements give people the oppurtunity …
bracknell “long engagements give people the oppurtunity of finding out eachothers character before marriage, which is never advisable”
gwen “in matters of grave importance…
gwen “in matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing”
algy to jack: “women only call eachother…
algy to jack: “women only call eachother sister after they have clled eachother a lot of other things first”
bracknell to cecily: “the 2 weak points of our age…
bracknell to cecily: “the 2 weak points of our age are want of principale and want of profile..”
algy to jack “the way to behave to a woman is to…
algy to jack “the way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain”
gwen and cecily to algy and jack “there is something…
gwen and cecily to algy and jack “there is something in that name that inspires absolute confindence”
algy to jack: “all women become like their …
algy to jack: “all women become like their mothers - that iw their tradgedy. No man does. That is his”
algy to jack: “in married life three is …
algy to jack: “in married life three is company and two is none”
bracknell to algy: “never speak disrespectfully of …
bracknell to algy: “never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people that cant get into it do that”
cecily to algy “an engagement is hardly a …
cecily to algy “an engagement is hardly a serious one that has not been broken off atleast once”
gwen to cecily “my first impressions of …
gwen to cecily “my first impressions of people are never wrong”
