The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) Quotes

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Importance of Being Earnest completed its run in 1970.

It features Teddy Baird as producer, Benjamin Frankel in charge of musical score, and Desmond Dickinson as head of cinematography.

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) is recorded in English language and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) is 95 minutes long. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) is distributed by The Rank Organisation (UK).

The cast includes: Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff, Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell, Michael Redgrave as Jack Worthing, Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble, Joan Greenwood as Gwendolyn Fairfax, Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew, Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism, and Michael Denison as Algernon Moncreiff.

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) Quotes

Joan Greenwood as Gwendolyn Fairfax

• (Joan Greenwood) "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on a train."

• (Joan Greenwood) "In an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind, it becomes a pleasure."

• (Joan Greenwood) "There comes a time when speaking one's mind ceases to be a moral duty, it becomes a pleasure."

Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff

• (Michael Denison) "Oh. I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wicked."
• (Dorothy Tutin) "If you are not, then you have certainly have been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."

• (Michael Denison) "I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It's very romantic to be in love but there's nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one might be accepted. One usually is I believe. Then the whole excitement is over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell

• (Edith Evans) "A handbag."

• (Edith Evans) "Are your parents living?"
• (Michael Redgrave) "I have lost both my parents."
• (Edith Evans) "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

• (Edith Evans) "Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever."

• (Edith Evans) "To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people an opportunity of finding out each other's characters before marriage. Which I think is never advisable"

• (Edith Evans) "Do you smoke?"
• (Michael Redgrave) "Well yes, I must admit I smoke."
• (Edith Evans) "I'm glad to hear it. A man should have an occupation of some kind."

Michael Redgrave as Jack Worthing

• (Michael Redgrave) "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 still had a few fools left."
• (Michael Denison) "We have."
• (Michael Redgrave) "I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?"
• (Michael Denison) "The fools? Oh, about the clever people, of course."
• (Michael Redgrave) "What fools."

• (Michael Redgrave) "You are quite perfect Miss Fairfax."
• (Joan Greenwood) "Oh I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions."

Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble

• (Miles Malleson) "Charity dear Miss Prism, charity. None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts."

Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew

• (Dorothy Tutin) "When I see a spade I call it a spade."
• (Joan Greenwood) "I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade."

Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism

• (Margaret Rutherford) "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

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