Like
many of you we studied this play, The
Importance of Being Earnest, at school and performed sections of it. At that time I thought it was clever but not
particularly cool. Then along came the
TV version with the wonderful Dame Judi Dench who did the line "A
handbag!" real justice.
The
playwright Oscar Wilde was famous
for his wit – often cutting – and for getting himself into a world of trouble.
Some
lines from the play:
"All
women become like their mothers. That is
their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
"The
truth is rarely pure and never simple"
"I
never travel without my diary. One
should always have something sensational to read on the train"
"To
lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like
carelessness"
Other
sayings by Oscar Wilde include:
Nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught.
Be
yourself; everyone else is already taken
Always
forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
I shared this on my facebook page; in the last month I found couple of posters tempting and inspiring enough for my FB wall. Let me acknowledge and thank you for all the good posts. Regards, Sathya
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