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1. Which play contained this phrase: 'Manners before morals!'?
2. Which fairy story does this come from: 'It is a ridiculous attachment...she has no money, and far too many relations.'?
3. Which 1893 work contained this quote: 'Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.'?
4. Which short story gives us this line: 'He had gone to the Stock Exchange for six {months;} but what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears?'?
5. Which play contains this line: 'She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.'?
6. What short story contains the following line: 'Woman are meant to be loved, not understood.'?
7. This exchange features in one of Wilde's plays...which one: 'Cecily: This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.'?
8. Which work gave us the following quote: 'Industry is the root of all ugliness.'?
9. Which work contains this line: 'There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.'?
10. Which work contains this line: 'I always like the last person who is introduced to {me;} but, as a rule, as soon as I know people I get tired of them.'?
11. Which 1895 play contains this line: 'Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.'?
12. Which work contains this rather unedifying description of the English: 'The English public like tediousness, and like things to be explained to them in a tedious way.'?
13. Which play contains the following line: 'If a woman wants to hold a man, she has merely to appeal to the worst in him.'?
14. Which play contains the following quote: 'What a mistake it is to be sincere!'?
15. Which country is Wilde discussing in the following quote: 'The country seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive bigness.'?
16. Which work contains the following line: 'The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.'?
17. To whom was Wilde referring in this quote: 'He has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.'?
18. Which work contains the following line: 'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'?
19. Which work contains this line: 'My dear Margaret, what a handsome woman your husband has been dancing with! I should be quite jealous if I were you! Is she a great friend of yours?'?
20. Which play contains this quote: 'We women adore failures. They lean on us.'?
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