"...my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you."
"It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. They seem to think I should be with him."
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
"In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive
myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in
the hand-bag."
(In response to "You will marry me, won't you?")
"You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last
three months."
"If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think I’ll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested in him."
Gwendolen
Algernon
Lady Bracknell
Jack
Cecily
Miss Prism
match the quotes for the characters.
Gwendolen - "If Gwendolen accepts me, I am going to kill my brother, indeed I think I’ll kill him in any case. Cecily is a little too much interested in him."
Algernon - “Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
Lady Bracknell - "In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag."
Jack - "...my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you."
Cecily - "You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months."
Miss Prism - "It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. They seem to think I should be with him."