Oscar Wilde

Nicholas Frankel

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895.

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest

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angie

Tija

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. 

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. 

Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. 

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.

Bart Veldhuijsen 

Jack: Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.

william wukkuan

I haven’t the smallest intention of doing anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one’s own relations.

I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you?

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