Act I:
ALGERNON: I really don't see anything romantic about proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. but there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. one usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
~61-65
ALGERNON: Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right...It is a great truth. It accounts for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place.
~82-86
JACK: My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
ALGERNON: Well, that is exactly what dentists always do.
~149-151
ALGERNON: All women become like heir mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
~529-530
ALGERNON: 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.
~546-547
JACK: You never talk anything but nonsense.
ALGERNON: No one ever does.
~639-640
Act II
MISS PRISM: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.
CHASUBLE: And often, I've been told, not even to her.
~181-182
ALGERNON: You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. no one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
~765-767
Act III
GWENDOLEN: How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.
JACK: We are.
CECILY: They have moments of physical courage of which we women know absolutely nothing.
~54-58
LADY BRACKNELL: To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which i think is never advisable.
~180-183
LADY BRACKNELL: Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~216-217
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