“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Algernon attempting to prevent Jack from proposing to Gwendolen in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
This is an excellent play, and well worth reading as Wilde’s dry wit is as funny today as it was one hundred years ago. Assuming one is entertained by a comedy of manners.
There is a 2002 movie with the same title with Rupert Everett as Algernon, Colin Firth as Jack, Frances O’connor as Gwendolen, Reese Whitherspoon as Cecily, Jack’s ward, and Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother.
Quoting Oscar Wilde:
“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Algernon attempting to prevent Jack from proposing to Gwendolen in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
This is an excellent play, and well worth reading as Wilde’s dry wit is as funny today as it was one hundred years ago. Assuming one is entertained by a comedy of manners.
There is a 2002 movie with the same title with Rupert Everett as Algernon, Colin Firth as Jack, Frances O’connor as Gwendolen, Reese Whitherspoon as Cecily, Jack’s ward, and Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother.