The Importance of Being Earnest – Movie Quotes

— My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out. The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live. That is what I mean. So Bunbury died.
— He seems to have had great confidence... in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made his up mind... at the last to some definite course of action... and acted under
proper medical advice.

— I've always been of opinion... that a man who desires to get married... should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
— I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
— I'm pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers... with natural ignorance.

I had not been there since her poor husband's death. I never saw a woman so altered. She looks quite twenty years younger.

When I'm in trouble, eating is my only consolation. Indeed, when I'm in really great trouble... as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you... I refuse everything except food and drink.

— Well, when one is in town, one amuses oneself. When one is in the country, one amuses other people. It's excessively boring.
— Who are these people you amuse?
— Oh, neighbours, neighbours.

Women only do that when they have... called each other a lot of other things first.

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