Contessa Lucchino Quotes in A Good Woman (2004)

Contessa Lucchino: If everyone knew what everyone said about each other there wouldn't be four friends in the world.

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.

Contessa Lucchino: My own business bores me. I much prefer other peoples.

Contessa Lucchino: And another thing, your Mrs. Erlynne has no principles at all.

Tuppy: I like people more than principles.

Alessandra: Now I see uncle. He's with the American woman.

Contessa Lucchino: Too much rouge and not enough clothing. She's appealing to the worst in the poor man.

Lord Darlington: It's what women do best.

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.