The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Reese Witherspoon: Cecily

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• Algy : Do you mean you couldn't love me if I had a different name?

  Cecily : But what name?

  Algy : Well... Algy, for instance.

  Cecily : I might respect you, Earnest, I might admire your character, but I feel that I could never give you my undivided attention.

• Cecily : What a charming boy, I like his hair so much!

• Algy : I don't seem to care about anything anymore... I only care for you. I love you Cecily. Will you marry me?

  Cecily : Why, of course! We've been engaged for the past 3 months!

  Algy : ...3 months?

• Cecily : You must not laugh at me, darling, but it has always been a girlish dream of mine to love a man named Ernest.

• Cecily , Gwendolyn : [speaking together]  Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier! That is all.

• Miss Prism : Do you mind if I take your picture?

  Cecily : No, I often like to be looked at.

• Gwendolyn : Let us preserve a dignified silence.

  Cecily : Certainly. It is the only thing to do now.

  [Jack and Algernon begin serenading them] 

  Gwendolyn : This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect.