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> I think you meant the importance of being Ernest. 
 
 
Not really. First the title of the play itself is "The importance of being 
Earnest. a trivial comedy for serious people". Second, the quotation about 
a cynic comes according to the The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 
[http://www.bartleby.com/66/97/64397.html] from Lady Windermere's Fan, act 
3 (1893) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) ch. 4 not from The 
importance of being Earnest.   
 
My point was rather to suggest the value of non-opportunistic (earnest) 
behaviour. Or as Samuel L. Jackson once remarked in a film the details of 
which I have successfully blocked from my memory: "I am frank and earnest. 
In Chicago I am Frank, in New York I am Ernest." 
 
Nikos Th. 
 
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