The House of Mirth
2000
Lawrence Selden: Isn't marriage your vocation? Isn't it what you're all brought up for? Lily Bart: You speak as if I should marry the first man who came along.
Lily Bart: Why is it when we meet we always play this elaborate game?
Lily Bart: You never speak to me. Lawrence Selden: I'm never near you long enough.
Lily Bart: I thought that I could manage my own life, but I have been foolish, foolish to the point of being compromised.
Lily Bart: I have been about too long. People are tired of me.
Grace: Men have minds like moral flypaper. They will forgive a woman almost anything except the loss of her good name.
Lily Bart: Sometimes, I think a man understands a woman's motives better than her own sex does.
Lily Bart: If obliquity were a vice, we should all be tainted. Mrs Peniston: Only someone without family could make such a vulgar remark. Lily Bart: Aunt Julia, you are my family.
(To Lawrence) Lily Bart: Love me. But don't tell me so.
(To Grace at the opera house) Mrs Peniston: Thank you for telling me, Grace. But I must say this unwelcome information has completely ruined the Mozart for me.