The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

Quotes from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde:

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple
• If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
• Oh! it is 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.
• I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
• The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
• I never change, except in my affections.