“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
― Romeo and Juliet
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
― Romeo and Juliet
“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 had a few fools left.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“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."
"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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