Michael Denison: Algernon Moncrieff
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Jack Worthing : Algy, you don't suppose that Gwendolyn will become like her mother - in about one hundred and fifty years, do you?
Algernon Moncrieff : All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Jack Worthing : 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.
Algernon Moncreiff : We have.
Jack Worthing : I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
Algernon Moncreiff : The fools? Oh, about the clever people, of course.
Jack Worthing : What fools!
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Algernon Moncrieff : Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wicked.
Cecily Cardew : 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.
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Cecily Cardew : Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
Algernon Moncrieff : Australia? I'd sooner die.
Cecily Cardew : Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, and Australia.
Algernon Moncrieff : Oh. Well the reports I have of the next world and Australia are not particularly encouraging.
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Algernon Moncrieff : 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.
