Oscar Wilde Quiz

If you can identify the following quotations ( character and play ) you can count yourself a Wilde aficionado. Scroll down for the answers.

  1. If the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them ?
  2. The English country gentleman, galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
  3. Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
  4. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
  5. I can’t understand this modern mania for curates.
  6. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
  7. Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
  8. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
  9. Between men and women there is no friendship possible.
  10. I have never heard any man mention his brother. The subject seems distasteful to most men.

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