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.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.