“My dear Constance, the name of Wilde will be a word of execration for the next thousand years.”
Judy Parfitt - Lady Mount-Temple

“Well, you should be embarrassed because your parents named you after bottled water!”

Molly Shannon - Mary Katherine Gallagher

“Your name was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels and it's got to stay Beaufort now that he's covered you with shame.”

Miriam Margolyes - Mrs. Mingott

“- Jean: Is that why the people they find with the bullet holes in their skulls is God's fault? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
- Ray: I'm ashamed of nothing. I didn't make the world.
- Jean: But you're not doing anything to make it better.”
Annabella Sciorra - Jean
Christopher Walken - Ray

“- Reggie Turner: How do you like your new name?
- Oscar Wilde: Almost as much as I loathe the old one.”
Colin Firth - Reggie Turner
Rupert Everett - Oscar Wilde