Francesca Annis credited as playing...
Lillie
- Oscar Wilde: The truth is that I really do love you, yet it is the curse of my nature that I can desire but not possess beauty. It must always be just out of reach. I've wept for you and for myself.
- Lillie Langtry: If you let me, I would show you I'm more real than the goddess you imagine.
- Oscar Wilde: That is the one truth that I am frightened of.
- [Oscar Wilde is carrying a lily.]
- Oscar Wilde: I could only afford one bloom, and I told them it had to be the most perfect in all Covent Garden, as it was for you.
- Lillie Langtry: And you carried all the way here?
- Oscar Wilde: All the way on foot, and I hate walking. It was like a royal progress. As I passed down the Strand, I heard one pompous gentleman say loudly enough for all to hear, "There goes that bloody fool, Oscar Wilde." I bowed to him and said, "I am carrying this to Mrs. Langtry. Would you not gladly exchange places?"
- Lillie Langtry: [laughing] One day they'll send a doctor to certify you.
- Oscar Wilde: The only thing certifiable about me is my genius.