A Man of No Importance Quotes

Ivor Carney: It's very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only stock brokers do that, aand then merely at dinner parties.


Robbie Fay: Don't you be dirtying that nice clean bus, now.
Alfie Byrne: You have it lovely, Bosie. I can see myself in it, like Narcissus.
Robbie Fay: You're at it again.
Alfie Byrne: At what?
Robbie Fay: That stuff you do. Big words. Poetry.


Alfie Bryne: The only way to get rid of temptation, is to yield to it.


Alfie Byrne: Dancing is neither modest or immodest. It's either well-done, or badly done.
Christy Ward: Is that a quote?
Alfie Byrne: Almost.


Alfie Byrne: I've learned a horrible lesson.
Adele Rice: About me.
Alfie Byrne: About myself.


Alfie Byrne: She is like a dove that has strayed. She is like a Narcissus trembling in the wind. She is like a silver flower.
Robbie Fay: You know what I think?
Alfie Byrne: What, Bosie?
Robbie Fay: I think you're soft on her.