PLEASURE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:

Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - pleasure in The Importance of Being Earnest
1  With pleasure, Miss Prism, with pleasure.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In SECOND ACT
2  My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In SECOND ACT
3  I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In FIRST ACT
4  She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In FIRST ACT
5  I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to give up the pleasure of dining with you to-night after all.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In FIRST ACT
6  And surely there must be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In SECOND ACT
7  What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In FIRST ACT