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A review by faysantillo
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
5.0
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.