автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Di­vorces are made in Heaven

When one is placed in the po­s­i­tion of guard­ian, one has to ad­opt a very high moral tone on all sub­jects. It’s one’s duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to con­duce very much to either one’s health or one’s hap­pi­ness, in or­der to get up to town I have al­ways pre­ten­ded to have a younger brother of the name of Ern­est, who lives in the Al­bany, and gets into the most dread­ful scrapes

You look as if your name was Ern­est. You are the most earn­est-look­ing per­son I ever saw in my life. It is per­fectly ab­surd your say­ing that your name isn’t Ern­est

From the moment I saw you I distrusted you. I felt that you were false and deceitful. I am never deceived in such matters. My first impressions of people are invariably right.

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. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.

as right as a trivet.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.