A Good Woman Quotes

Lord Darlington: I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.


Lord Darlington: I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.
Tuppy: A tribute to American efficiency.


Lord Darlington: Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people, Tuppy. Sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load.


Tuppy: You're so fond of gossip you don't give the truth a chance to put its pants on.
Contessa Lucchino: It's not the truth that's going around without pants, caro Tuppy.


Contessa Lucchino: You mustn't take it personally. Mrs. Erlynne is one of those women that attract men like a bee to a flame. Eh?
Meg Windermere: A moth.
Contessa Lucchino: Bee to a moth. Mmm.


Contessa Lucchino: Undying love is like the ghost in your villa. Everybody talks about it, but try and find one person who has seen it.


Meg Windermere: How could he?
Contessa Lucchino: Every man is born truthful and every man dies a liar. Now whatever you do you mustn't make a scene. It's too unpleasant and you waste energy.
Meg Windermere: No, of course not. I wouldn't.
Contessa Lucchino: Crying is the refuge of plain women.
[smiling brightly]
Contessa Lucchino: Pretty women go shopping.


Dumby: Do you think she'd look at you if you were poor?
Tuppy: Do you think I'd look at her if she were ugly? Fair's fair, exchange rates and so forth. Well I know she's had her this and her that... but if a man can tolerate his own past... why not a past in his wife?


Dumby: Women inspire us to great things.
Cecil: Then somehow prevent us from doing any of them.