- Lord Henry Wotton: Uncle George, I want to get something out of you.
- Lord Fermor: Money, I suppose.
- Lord Henry Wotton: No, no, no, it isn't money I want. You see, it's only people who pay their bills who want that, Uncle George, and I never pay mine.
- Lord Fermor: Is she pretty?
- Lord Henry Wotton: She behaves as if she were beautiful. All American women do; it's the secret of their charm.
- Lord Fermor: Why can't American women stay in their own country? They keep telling us it's a woman's paradise.
- Lord Henry Wotton: It appears to be. That is why, like Eve, they are so anxious to get out of it.