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30 Cards in this Set
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Algernon: Act 1: I don't...
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I don't play accurately, anyone can play accurately, I play with expression.
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Algernon: Act 1: Really?
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Really? If the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Jack: Act 1: When one...
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When one is in town, one amuses oneself, when one is in the country one amuses other people.
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Algernon: 1: Oh it's...
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Oh it's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Jack: 1: My Dear...
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My dear Algy! You talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It's very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
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Gwendolen: 1: Pray don't...
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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 so nervous.
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Lady Bracknell: 1: I've always...
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I've always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Lady Bracknell: 1: I don't approve...
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I don't approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate fruit, touch it and the bloom is gone.....fortunately in England, Education produces no effect whatsoever.
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Algernon: 1: All women...
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Algernon: 1: The only way...
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The only way to behave to a women is to make love to her is she is pretty, and to some one else if she is plain.
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Lady Bracknell: 1: An engagement...
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant the case may be.
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Algernon: 1: It's awfully..
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It's awfully hard work doing nothing. However I don't mind hard work where there's no definite objects of any kind.
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Gwendolen: 1: The truth...
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious it if were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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Algernon: 1: Relationships...
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Relationships are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Gwendolen: 2: I never...
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Cecily: 2: I should have remembered....
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals!
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Cecily: 2: Oh, I don't think...
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Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Gwendolen: 2: And certainly once...
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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!
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Gwendolen: 2: Well, to speak...
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Well, to speak with perfect candour Cecily, I wish that you were fully forty-two, and more than usually plain for your age.
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Jack: 2: I could deny...
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I could deny it if I liked - I could deny anything if I liked.
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Miss Prism: 2: The good ended...
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what FICTION means.
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Jack: 2: Gwendolen - Cecily - ....
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Gwendolen - Cecily - it's very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth, it's the first time in my life i've been reduced to such a painful position, I"m really quite inexperienced of doing anything of the kind.
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Algernon: 3: Oh I killed...
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Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon. I mean bunbury died this afternoon.
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Lady Bracknell: 3: The chin a little....
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The chin a little higher dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They're worn very high, just at present.
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Lady Bracknell: 3: London society is full of women
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London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Jack: 3: Gwendolen, it's a terrible...
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Gwendolen, it's a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
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Jack: 3: I've now realised...
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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest.
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Jack: 3: And what makes this conduct...
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And what makes this conduct all the more heartless is, he was perfectly well aware from the first that I have no brother, that I've never had a brother, and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told himself so myself yesterday afternoon.
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Cecily: 2: I hope you haven't been...
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I hope you haven't been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Lady Bracknell: 1: I hadn't been there since...
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I hadn't been there since my poor husband's death, and now I'll have a cup of tea and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches.
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