The Importance of Being Earnest quotes
6 quotes from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.