The Importance of being Earnest

" 'Algy, you're always talking nonsense.'
'It's better than listening to it.' "

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

" 'Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?'
'I didn't think it polite to listen, Sir.' "

"London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"

"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain."

"Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner."

"It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind."

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing."

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

Wonderfull! I haven't had such a laugh in ages. Such a humorous slyness, such sweet nonsensical happenings and such simply outrageous doctrines and views upon life can rarely be seen all toegether. A wonderfull comedy! I cried with laughter.I do recomend it to all those that are in need of a good soul lightening laugh. :)

["The Importance of being Earnest" (2002); Directed by Oliver Parker. With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth]