Act Iii Quotes

“I never change, except in my affections.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurour and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once
That make ingrateful man!”
― William Shakespeare , King Lear

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King;”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!”
― William Shakespeare