Top 33 Quotes About The 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 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' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
Tom Stoppard
#6. 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
#7. There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
Napoleon Hill
#8. The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
#9. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde
#12. It must live on. The revolution must not end here.
Billy Roper
#13. 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
#14. Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, because the LORD will do wonders among you tomorrow. " Joshua 3:5
Beth Moore
#15. I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#16. Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
Patrick O'Brian
#17. I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case.
Emily Tomko
#18. More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
#19. I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
#20. 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
#21. After the way you have accepted and slipped so perfectly into my life, feeding my desires," he says, cupping my face in his hands as the water streams down us, "I want to share everything with you, Evan.
Lilly Black
#22. It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.
Barack Obama
#23. The God's tropical ... ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.'
Ghostface Killah
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The rush of emotion unbalanced him, his initial outrage eclipsed by an all-consuming grief.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#27. 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
#28. I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.
Oscar Wilde
#32. can result in a resurrection of life for many souls and a recapture of that radiant wonder which should accompany faith in Christ, that wonder which has all but fled the Church of God in our day.
A.W. Tozer
#33. Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
Johnny Rivers
