So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

The sky was pure opal now.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.