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Description
The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main charachter, John Worthing's, ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
Memorable Quotes
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.”
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“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
Lady Bracknell -
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by always being immensely over-educated.”
Algernon -
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.”
Algernon -
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
Lady Bracknell -
“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
Lady Bracknell
First Sentence
Scene. Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon Street.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Oscar Wilde (Author)
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