Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.