"Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won't you?"(Pg74)
"You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months."(Pg74)
"You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dram of mine to love some one whose name was Earnest. There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Earnest."(pg76)
"But, my dear child, do you mean to say you would not love me if i/"(pg76) had some other name
"Oh no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form i hope you will order a copy. But pray, Earnest, don't stop. I delight in taking down from dictation. I have reached 'absolute perfection.' You can go on. I am quite ready for more."(pg.73)
"Quite dead."(pg.64)
"What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it"(pg.64)
"Mr. Worthing, I will offer you my sincere condolence. You have at least the consolation of knowing you were always the most generous and forgiving of brothers."(pg.64-65)
"Brother John, I have come down from own to tell you that I am very sorry for all the trouble I have given you, and that I intend to lead a better life in the future."(pg68)