I treasure my remark to my grandson who asked, “Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?” Grandpa said, “No… but I served in a company of heroes.”
Band of Brothers (2001)
You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. From the very beginning, your manners impressed me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. I had not known you a month before I felt you were the last man in the world whom I could ever marry.
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Women like me don’t have a life. We choose clothes, and pay calls, and work for charity, and do the season. But really, we’re stuck in a waiting room until we marry.
Downton Abbey (Series 1)
I’ve always known myself. But he was the first to recognize me, and to love what he saw.
Jane Eyre (2006)
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Persuasion (1995)
There is a holiness to the heart’s affections. Know you nothing of that?
Bright Star (2009)
England is under threat of invasion, and though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship is England.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
I wouldn’t necessarily believe everything Briony tells you. She’s rather fanciful.
Atonement (2007)
If there’s one thing I don’t look for in a maid, it’s discretion. Unless it’s with my own secrets, of course.
Gosford Park (2001)
