L'Importance d'être constant

Vraiment, si les classes populaires ne nous donnent pas le bon exemple, à quoi peuvent-elles bien servir ? Elles semblent, en tant que classe, n’avoir aucune conscience de leur responsabilité morale.
(p. 2, Acte 1).

JACK: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

ALGERNON: We have.

JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?

ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.

JACK: What fools!