- Violet Effingham: Well, a young woman has to take care of herself.
- Lord Chiltern: She may and a man may do that, and any man worth calling a man is not made like the angels nor should any woman worth his care pretend that she is either, and that goes for you, Violet.
- Duke of Omnium: [Referring to his advanced years] There's no cures for Anno Dominis except to forget oneself in pleasure.
- Madame Max Goesler: [to Finn] It is very easy for a man to be a lord if his father is one before him, but for a man to make himself a lord or as good as one, now that I call very much indeed.