TIOBE - Quotes

Question 1

“_______, if the ____ _____ don’t set us a ____ _______, what on ______ is the ___ of them” - Algernon

Answer 1

“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?” - Algernon

Question 2

“I have only been _______ once… in a _________ of a _________ between ______ and a _____ person.” - Lane

Answer 2

“I have only been married once… in a consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.” - Lane

Question 3

“The _______ is ______ pure and never ______.” - Algernon

Answer 3

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple” - Algernon

Question 4

“Washing one’s _____ ______ in ______.” - Algernon

Answer 4

“Washing one’s clean linen in public.” - Algernon

Question 5

“A man who _______ without knowing _________ has a very ______ time of it.” - Algernon

Answer 5

“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.” - Algernon

Question 6

“I am ____ to ____ of _______, I wish to _______ we had a few _____ left.”- Jack

Answer 6

“I am sick to death of cleverness, I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.” - Jack

Question 7

“________ produces no ___ whatsoever. If it did, it would ______ a ______ danger to the _____ classes” - Lady Bracknell

Answer 7

“Education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would provide a serious danger to the upper classes.” - Lady Bracknell

Question 8

“________… what ___ should bring ___ anywhere.” - Jack

Answer 8

“Pleasure… what else should bring one anywhere.”- Jack

Question 9

“My _______ was ____ from ____.” - Chasuble

Answer 9

“My metaphor was drawn from bees.”- Chasuble

Question 10

“My ______.. can be _____ for almost any ________.” - Chasuble

Answer 10

“My sermon… can be adapted for almost any occasion.”- Chasuble

Question 11

“I hope you have not been ______ a _____ life, pretending to be _____ and being really _____ all the time. That would be ________.” - Cecily

Answer 11

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” - Cecily

Question 12

“You can _____ on…” - Cecily to Algernon

Answer 12

“You can go on..”- Cecily to Algernon

Question 13

“I ____ his _____ so much.” - Cecily

Answer 13

“I like his hair so much.”- Cecily

Question 14

“The ____ seems to __ be the proper _____ for the ____.” - Gwendolen

Answer 14

“The home seems to be the proper sphere for the man.”- Gwendolen

Question 15

“This is no ____ for ______ the ______ ___ of _____.”- Cecily

Answer 15

“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners.”- Cecily

Question 16

“A ____ _______ has been _______ on ___ of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen

Answer 16

“A gross deception has been practised on both of us.”- Cecily to Gwendolen

Question 17

“In _____ of ___ ________, style, not ________ is the _____ thing.”- Gwendolen

Answer 17

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”- Gwendolen

Question 18

“When I _______ Lord _______, I had no _______ of any _____.”- Lady Bracknell

Answer 18

“When I married Lord Bracknell, I had no fortune of any kind.”- Lady Bracknell

Question 19

“I do not _____ to _______ him.” - Lady B on Lord B

Answer 19

“I do not propose to undeceive him.” - Lady B on Lord B

Question 20

“We live… in an ____ of _______.” - Lady Bracknell

Answer 20

“We live.. in an age of surfaces.” - Lady Bracknell

Question 21

“He has _______, but he looks ________. What ____ can one ________.” Lady B on Algernon

Answer 21

“He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire.” - Lady B on Algernon

Question 22

“It is a _______ thing for a ____ to find out suddenly that all his _____ he has been ________ nothing but the _____.” - Jack

Answer 22

“It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.” - Jack