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)
