The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.

...when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

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It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.