Joan Greenwood: Gwendolen Fairfax (Her Daughter)
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Quotes
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Cecily Cardew : When I see a spade, I call it a spade.
Gwendolyn Fairfax : I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade.
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Gwendolyn Fairfax : I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Gwendolyn Fairfax : There comes a time when speaking one's mind ceases to be a moral duty, it becomes a pleasure.
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Jack Worthing : You are quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.
Gwendolyn Fairfax : Oh, I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Gwendolyn Fairfax : We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age of ideals, and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name which inspires absolute confidence.
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Gwendolyn Fairfax : In an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind, it becomes a pleasure.
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Gwendolyn Fairfax , Cecily Cardew : Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier.
