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  • I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

    Jobs   Dallas   Firsts  
    "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.
  • The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

    The Importance of Being Earnest act 2 (1895)
  • It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

    "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".
  • I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

    Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.33, Dramatic Publishing
  • The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

    Style   Littles   Way  
    Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.133
  • The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions
  • More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

    Oscar Wilde (1980). “Poems”
  • Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

    Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc
  • I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

    Hate   People   Meals  
    Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19
  • Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

    Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.65, Dramatic Publishing
  • Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

    Men   Garden   Heaven  
    Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC
  • My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

    Girl   Sweet   Nice  
    Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann
  • A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

  • I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

    Calling   Half   Firsts  
    Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

    "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".
  • The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

    Truth   Lying   Simple  
    Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.368, Wordsworth Editions
  • Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

    Mean   Weather   People  
    Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.25
  • 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.

    1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.
  • Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

    Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.47, Heinemann
  • You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

    Cake   Missing   Tea  
    Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications
  • I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

    Country   Order   May  
    The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)
  • The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

    Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17
  • I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin
  • Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

    1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.
  • When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

    Country   People   Towns  
    Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

    Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.112
  • In married life three is company and two none.

    'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1
  • I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin
  • What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

    Home   Land   Giving  
    Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

    Girl   Flirting   Men  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1343, GENERAL PRESS
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