Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wilde jack algy the-importance-of-being-earnest
Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics united-states oscar-wilde england the-importance-of-being-earnest confrontation united-kingdom margaret-thatcher ronald-reagan social-class political-radicalism social-structure-of-the-uk
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
Oscar WildeTags: the-importance-of-being-earnest
I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.
Oscar WildeTags: humor-relationships the-importance-of-being-earnest
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