The Importance of Being Earnest Quotes

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:loveromance

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:lovelifewaiting

“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.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:lovemarriage

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:lovewomenbeauty

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:truth

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:life

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:life

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:truthwomenlie

“Gwendolen, it is 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?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:truthforgiveness

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

topic:womenmen