Edith Evans: Lady Augusta Bracknell
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Quotes
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Lady Bracknell : Are your parents living?
Jack Worthing : I have lost both my parents.
Lady Bracknell : To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Lady Bracknell : A handbag!
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Lady Bracknell : Do you smoke?
Jack Worthing : Well yes, I must admit I smoke.
Lady Bracknell : I'm glad to hear it. A man should have an occupation of some kind.
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Lady Bracknell : Thirty-five is an attractive age. London is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Lady Bracknell : I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over.
Jack Worthing : Well, I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that, Lady Bracknell. I can produce the hand-bag at any moment. It is in my dressing-room at home. I really think that should satisfy you, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell : Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing!
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Lady Bracknell : To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people an opportunity of finding out each other's characters before marriage, which I think is never advisable
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Lady Bracknell : Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit: touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
