Excerpts from the Book 'The Importance Of Being Earnest':

... to say you have had my cigarette case all this time? I wish to goodness you had let me know. I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about ...
... exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression. Algernon. Well, ...
... plate in horror.] Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially. Lane. [Gravely.] There were no cucumbers in the ...
... my girl-friends tell me so. What wonderfully blue eyes you have, Ernest! They are quite, quite, blue. I hope you will always look at me just like that, ...
... to it-an ordinary hand-bag in fact. Lady Bracknell. In what locality did this Mr. James, or Thomas, Cardew come across this ordinary hand-bag? Jack. ...
... care-to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing! [Lady Bracknell sweeps out in majestic indignation.] Jack. ...
... of duty and responsibility. Cecily. I suppose that is why he often looks a little bored when we three are together. Miss Prism. Cecily! I am surprised at ...
... know that, but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. Indeed I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, when the Rector came in. Chasuble. ...
... I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. Won't you come in? Algernon. Thank ...
... tell him to come out. And you will shake hands with him, won't you, Uncle Jack? [Runs back into the house.] Chasuble. These are very joyful tidings. Miss ...
... be exactly three months on Thursday. Algernon. But how did we become engaged? Cecily. Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he ...
... it is rather hard that you should leave me for so long a period as half an hour. Couldn't you make it twenty minutes? Algernon. I'll be back in no ...
... boy may have got into, I will never reproach him with it after we are married. Gwendolen. Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement? You ...
... 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 ...
... That may be. But the muffins are the same. [He seizes the muffin-dish from Jack.] Jack. Algy, I wish to goodness you would go. Algernon. ...
... of time. I remember recommending one to young Lady Lancing, and after three months her own husband did not know her. Jack. And after six months nobody ...
... But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing ...
... quails. She looks anxiously round as if desirous to escape.] Lady Bracknell. [In a severe, judicial voice.] Prism! [Miss Prism bows her head in shame.] ...
... you will have to treat me with more respect in the future. You have never behaved to me like a brother in all your life. Algernon. Well, not till ...
... is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps. Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost The ...