Oscar Wilde Lady Bracknell Quotes

#1. Confidence is the ultimate beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Lady Bracknell: He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Never met such a Gorgon ... I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Oscar Wilde

#4. LADY BRACKNELL
Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Oscar Wilde

#5. Unfortunately, natural language often makes a clear distinction between member and class difficult.

Paul Watzlawick

#6. I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check.

Krista Ritchie

#7. It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

Sarah Smiley

#8. LADY BRACKNELL
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.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Dave Ramsey

#10. Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two

Peter Hoeg

#12. LADY BRACKNELL: It is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much.

Oscar Wilde

#13. I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Alexandra Stoddard

#14. Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education?
Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability.
Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in ... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was ... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Oscar Wilde

#16. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

George Soros

#17. Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Oscar Wilde

#18. LADY BRACKNELL
I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
ALGERNON
I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

Oscar Wilde

#19. LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.
Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.
Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Oscar Wilde

#21. In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Pope Benedict XVI

#22. I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

Tom Shadyac