First Mrs. Chamberlain and now them. Why don’t we just go outside and roam in the gutter? It will save time.[seeing the Russells]
You’ve made it once. You can make it again if you have to.[to George]
You need to know we only receive the old people in this house, not the new. Never the new.[to Marian]
You don’t know anything about me, about my life, about my situation. I live in a different country from the one you know.[to Marian]
You don’t just marry a man. You marry a life.
Why should I align myself with either party when I don’t have the right to vote?
We’re all so quick to see the mote in someone else’s eye and forget the plank in our own.
We don’t have a choice in the matter. We must go where history takes us.[to Mr. McAllister]
To act on impulse is to make oneself a hostage to ridicule.
These people. You shut the door, they come in the window. You shut the window, they come down the chimney. They never give up.
There’s always money if you know where to find it.
There is a profound loneliness in the life of a spinster. It hurts… Whenever you see couples together. You mask the pain with a smile, but you don’t deceive yourself. [to Marian]
