Michael Redgrave: Ernest Worthing
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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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Jack Worthing : Algy, you don't suppose that Gwendolyn will become like her mother - in about one hundred and fifty years, do you?
Algernon Moncrieff : All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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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 : 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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Jack Worthing : 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 still had a few fools left.
Algernon Moncreiff : We have.
Jack Worthing : I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
Algernon Moncreiff : The fools? Oh, about the clever people, of course.
Jack Worthing : What fools!
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Jack Worthing : You are quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.
Gwendolyn Fairfax : Oh, I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Jack Worthing : Gwendolyn, 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?
