Цитаты из книги автора Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Di­vorces are made in Heaven

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.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

Gwen­dolen, it is a ter­rible thing for a man to find out sud­denly that all his life he has been speak­ing noth­ing but the truth. Can you for­give me?