...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.