oscar wilde, ou o zeitgeist vitoriano

Algernon (to Jack): Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don’t try it. You should leave that to people who haven’t been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers.

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Algernon (to Jack): My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. [The sound of an electric bell is heard.] Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives or creditors ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

'The Importance of Being Earnest', ontem, pela Pearl Theatre Company.