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Favorite Quotes

posted 18 years ago by bookwormfreak112
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I just saw this play yesterday, and thought it was awsome -- I'll have to get the movie now.

Anyway, for those who have seen the movie and/or play, what was your favorite line? There's so many to chose from, but the one that stands out was when Jack and Algy say they are willing to change their names for the girls they love:

Gwendolyn: How absurd to talk about the quality of sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us!

It may sound anti-feminist, but I just laughed out loud in the theatre when I heard it!

What about you?

I believe in happy endings.

[–] JennyLeighx33 16 years ago

the part about the muffins always gets me :)!!

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[–] wonderllama91 16 years ago

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. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
-Lady Bracknell

[–] Will-35 16 years ago

Gwendolen: You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked you most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

and

Cecily: Do you suggest Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

[–] tracker09 15 years ago

Jack: How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble?
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[–] mstutzmn 15 years ago

At the beginning:

Algy: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
Lane: I didn't think it polite to listen, Sir.
Algernon: I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.