My Favorite Quotes

"Count to five-and-twenty, Tatty Quarum."
                                                             ~Little Dorrit (BBC), What Harriett's master says to her when she gets angry.


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"Shake me' up, Judy!"
                                 ~Bleak House (BBC), What Mr. Smallweed says when he needs his back bones cracked.

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LADY BRACKNELL.    Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?

JACK [gravely].      In a handbag

LADY BRACKNELL.     A handbag?

JACK [very seriously].      Yes, Lady Bracknell,"-----------------------------------talks about what the handbag looked like, Lady Bracknell is shocked, and now to my favorite part--

8 lines later:

LADY BRACKNELL.    The line is immaterial.  Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.  To be born, at at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds me of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

                                                                        ~The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Act I

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(this next part, I may have some things wrong, but you get the idea--)

"Mrs. Bennet, as you know, my patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh wishes me to find a wife during my stay." (Mr. Collins)

"I have become quite aware." (Mrs. Bennet)

I find that sooooo funny because, all Mr. Collins talks about is Lady Catherine, so of course Mrs. Bennet is "aware." Seriously, why doesn't he just marry Lady Catherine???


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That's All, Folks!

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