Martin Davies
They were easy words to speak, simple commonplaces that were almost without meaning except as a charm to reassure.
Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
A conversation between Marianne and Elinor Dashwood
“There. There I fell, and there I first saw Willoughby.”
“Poor Willoughby. He will always regret you.”
“But does it follow that having chosen me he would have been content? He would have had a wife he loved, but no money, and might soon have learnt to rank the demands of his pocketbook far above the demands of his heart. If his present regrets are half as painful as mine, he will suffer enough.”
“Do you compare your conduct with his?”
“No. I compare it to with what it ought to have been. I compare it with yours.”
Kerry Washington and Dean Norris as Captain Charity Adams and General Halt respectively
The Six Triple Eight (2024)
Captain Charity Adams to General Halt
Now, I know we are fighting a war, but our war starts with being Negro. We are fighting on ever front. So as I said, sir, over my dead body, sir.