The Pallisers Quotes
Gerard Maule: [after telling Maule that she has rejected Fawn's marriage proposal] He's desperate for a wife. Other men ain't!
Adelaide Palliser: Gerald Maule, you're so smug I could hit you.
Gerard Maule: I wouldn't try it, Missy. You might get as good as you get.
Adelaide Palliser: You ain't a gentleman, that's what!
Gerard Maule: You just discovered that?
Adelaide Palliser: You've no need to look so pleased with yourself.
Gerard Maule: Oh, but I'm not. On the contrary Miss Palliser, I am so conscious of my defects I can never presume to offer myself as a husband, least of all to a decent girl like you.
Adelaide Palliser: But that's just it. When I'm with you, I don't care a bit for being decent. I feel positively indecent, and I like it! Now do you understand?
Gerard Maule: [laughs] Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. Whatever shall we do with this? Whatever shall we do with you?
Adelaide Palliser: Gerald Maule, you're so smug I could hit you.
Gerard Maule: I wouldn't try it, Missy. You might get as good as you get.
Adelaide Palliser: You ain't a gentleman, that's what!
Gerard Maule: You just discovered that?
Adelaide Palliser: You've no need to look so pleased with yourself.
Gerard Maule: Oh, but I'm not. On the contrary Miss Palliser, I am so conscious of my defects I can never presume to offer myself as a husband, least of all to a decent girl like you.
Adelaide Palliser: But that's just it. When I'm with you, I don't care a bit for being decent. I feel positively indecent, and I like it! Now do you understand?
Gerard Maule: [laughs] Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. Whatever shall we do with this? Whatever shall we do with you?
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Glencora: i read somewhere the other day that great ships always have little worms attached to them, but the great ships swim on, and there's nothing of the little worms.
Plantagenet: And the worms conquer at the last.
Glencora: They shall not conquer you.
Plantagenet: And the worms conquer at the last.
Glencora: They shall not conquer you.
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Lizzie Eustace: ...anyway, I don't want money. I want diamonds.
Mrs. Carbuncle: Better to have the money than neither, my dear. Money may not look as nice as diamonds, but it might come in handy one day... or perhaps you could use it to buy other diamonds later on. If you have money, you see, you can have anything you want.
Mrs. Carbuncle: Better to have the money than neither, my dear. Money may not look as nice as diamonds, but it might come in handy one day... or perhaps you could use it to buy other diamonds later on. If you have money, you see, you can have anything you want.
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Marie Finn: I have always believed that a husband and wife should be a great deal apart. Love is easily staled, Phineas.
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Silverbridge: What an accursed thing money can be!
Lady Mabel Grex: You mean the lack of it, Lord Silverbridge!
Lady Mabel Grex: You mean the lack of it, Lord Silverbridge!
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