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There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends-that's the real test.
If I weaken, I'll pay for it.
Jimmy: We all settle down one day.
Thomas: We don't all have the option.
The nature of life is not permanence but flux.
It's good to have more than one string to your bow.
But it's time he decided whether he is fish, flesh, fowl or good red herring.
Marriage is a lottery, as we are often told, but I am a man who has drawn a winning ticket. I have been awarded a bumper prize: beauty, brains, a heart, a conscience, all in one.
Principles are like prayers. Noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
Sympathy butters no parsnips.
My advice Daisy is to go as far in life as God and luck allow.
If I was seduced by a man, I would not let any grass grow under his feet.
An unlucky friend is tiresome enough and an unlucky acquaintance is intolerable.
You're allowed to be crossed you're not allowed to be unjust.
Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.
It will be very hard for you, my darling, but I promise it's better to know the truth than to live in a cloud of mystery and despair.
I was never the type to die of a broken heart, you know.
Violet: I never take sides in a broken marriage.
Shrimpie: Why is that?
Violet: Because, however much the couple may strive to be honest, no one is ever in possession of the facts.
I won't take sides-it's true. But I don't think I could ever be described as "neutral".
I never knew anyone who could provoke me into saying so many things I don't believe.
I accept change but I want to navigate it gently.
It's my kind of beer, and I know how to drink it.
Because he still won't accept I know my own mind.
Accept the burden that chance has seen fit to lay upon you. And to fashion as good a life as you are able.
Remember, harsh reality is always better than false hope.
All this endless thinking. It's very overrated.
My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.
I think it takes some people longer than others.
He's as touchy as a beauty losing her looks.
I like it when good things come from bad.
Love may not conquer all, but it can conquer quite a lot.
My dear, love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.
But who has a life where everything is easy?
We must always travel in hope.
If I weaken, I'll pay for it.
Jimmy: We all settle down one day.
Thomas: We don't all have the option.
The nature of life is not permanence but flux.
It's good to have more than one string to your bow.
But it's time he decided whether he is fish, flesh, fowl or good red herring.
Marriage is a lottery, as we are often told, but I am a man who has drawn a winning ticket. I have been awarded a bumper prize: beauty, brains, a heart, a conscience, all in one.
Principles are like prayers. Noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
Sympathy butters no parsnips.
My advice Daisy is to go as far in life as God and luck allow.
If I was seduced by a man, I would not let any grass grow under his feet.
An unlucky friend is tiresome enough and an unlucky acquaintance is intolerable.
You're allowed to be crossed you're not allowed to be unjust.
Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.
It will be very hard for you, my darling, but I promise it's better to know the truth than to live in a cloud of mystery and despair.
I was never the type to die of a broken heart, you know.
Violet: I never take sides in a broken marriage.
Shrimpie: Why is that?
Violet: Because, however much the couple may strive to be honest, no one is ever in possession of the facts.
I won't take sides-it's true. But I don't think I could ever be described as "neutral".
I never knew anyone who could provoke me into saying so many things I don't believe.
I accept change but I want to navigate it gently.
It's my kind of beer, and I know how to drink it.
Because he still won't accept I know my own mind.
Accept the burden that chance has seen fit to lay upon you. And to fashion as good a life as you are able.
Remember, harsh reality is always better than false hope.
All this endless thinking. It's very overrated.
My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.
I think it takes some people longer than others.
He's as touchy as a beauty losing her looks.
I like it when good things come from bad.
Love may not conquer all, but it can conquer quite a lot.
My dear, love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.
But who has a life where everything is easy?
We must always travel in hope.