Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natu…”

“When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far…”

“Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't…”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”