This quote is found in Act 2 between Algernon and Cecily when algernon has gone Bunburying as Jacks younger brother Earnest
Algernon: “Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn’t think that I am wicked.”
Cecily: “If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
Algernon is bunburying as Ernest but because he doesn't know much about him he states that he never could be wicked. Jack always says that his brother is wicked and has a wild lifestyle which is why no one has meet him. Cecily then believes that he has been lieing the whole time.
Cecily says that hypocrisy os pretending be wicked and being really good all the time but the real definition is pretending to have standards that one does not have.
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