Quotes About Importance Of Being Earnest

#1. The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

Kim Cattrall

#2. I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.

Peter Shaffer

#3. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Camp

#5. The importance of being earnest,

Oscar Wilde

#6. 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Tom Stoppard

#7. Then they could discuss the possibilities of social inequity, the way your socks always fall down when you're wearing rubber boots, and the importance of being earnest.

Stephen King

#8. It feels like I've waited a lifetime to kiss you again.

Siobhan Davis

#9. I was once chillin in my room, watching TV, just in a regular place.. And now I'm in this big world, living my dream and, you know, doing what I love. It's just crazy how it all came around.

Justin Bieber

#10. More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde

#11. An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

#12. There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.

Lev A.C. Rosen

#13. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Oscar Wilde

#14. A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Personality is a mask you believe in.

Robert J. White

#16. If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

MC Hammer

#17. An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Oscar Wilde

#18. I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Pauline Hanson

#19. There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.

Oscar Wilde

#20. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde

#22. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Oscar Wilde

#23. 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.

Oscar Wilde

#24. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

Oscar Wilde