Quotes across Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest categorised into a number of helpful themes
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Miss Prism is strict and serious “Surely such a utilitarian occupation as the watering of flowers is rather Moulton's duty than yours?”
“intellectual pleasures await you.”
“We will repeat yesterday's lesson.”
“Idle merriment and triviality would be out of place in his conversation.”
“You must put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all.”
“Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
“To your work, child, these speculations are profitless.”
“I have not mentioned anything about a headache.”
“[MISS PRISM glares.]”
“you will read your Political Economy in my absence.”
Miss Prism doesn’t approve of ‘Ernest’ “I do not think that even I could produce any effect on a character that according to his own brother's admission is irretrievably we
vacillating.”
“I am not sure that I would desire to reclaim him.”
“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”
“As a man sows so let him reap.”
“More shameful debts and extravagance?”
“What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it.”
“As a man sows, so shall he reap.”
“[Bitterly.]”
“People who live entirely for pleasure usually are.”
“This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”
“After we had all been resigned to his loss, his sudden return seems to me peculiarly distressing.”
“We must not be premature in our judgments.”
Miss Prism is interested in Canon “[Rising and advancing.]”
Chasuble “Dr. Chasuble! This is indeed a pleasure.”
“I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you.”
“That would be delightful.”
“You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope, never!”
“by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
Miss Prism respects Jack “Your guardian enjoys the best of health, and his gravity of demeanour is especially to be commanded in one so comparatively you
he is. I know no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibility.”
“Idle merriment and triviality would be out of place in his conversation.”
, Cecily is very interested in ‘Ernest’ “I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man, his brother, to come down here sometimes.”
“Uncle Jack's brother!”
“Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here.”
“I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”
“I am glad to hear it.”
“I think you should try.”
“Won't you come in?”
“[CECILY puts the rose in his buttonhole.]”
“[Enter ALGERNON and CECILY hand in hand.]”
“There is some good in every one.”
“surely there must be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain.”
“I feel very happy.”
“But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
“It can wait, Merriman for . . . five minutes”
“[Looks at CECILY, who makes no sign.]”
“Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months.”
“of course a man who is much talked about is always very attractive.”
“I fell in love with you, Ernest.”
“I accepted you under this dear old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, and this is the little bangle with th
lover's knot I promised you always to wear”
“you've wonderfully good taste, Ernest. It's the excuse I've always given for your leading such a bad life.”
“this is the box in which I keep all your dear letters.”
“I wrote always three times a week, and sometimes oftener.”
“The three you wrote me after I had broken of the engagement are so beautiful, and so badly spelled, that even now I can hardly re
them without crying a little.”
“You dear romantic boy.”
“[He kisses her, she puts her fingers through his hair.]”
“I am so glad.”
“I don't think I could break it off now that I have actually met you.”
“it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Ernest.”
“There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not
Ernest.”
“I think it is rather hard that you should leave me for so long a period as half an hour.”
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