"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"Doing nothing is hard work."
"On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?"
"A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule."
"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic."
"[Throughout the film, Patrick, who prefers to be called Kitten, dismisses all politics as] serious, serious, serious. ... I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about."
"We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do."
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his."