There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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.