Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.