Mrs. Erlynne Quotes in A Good Woman (2004)

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Mrs. Erlynne Quotes:

  • Meg Windermere: Can you imagine what people would say?

    Mrs. Erlynne: Well, if we're always guided by other people's thoughts what's the point of having our own?

  • Mrs. Erlynne: It takes practice and skill to live without regret. A marriage takes your whole heart. Selfish people can't pull it off, but you're not that.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: [to Meg Windermere] Go ahead, step over love to pick up pride and guilt. What will that trade be worth in a year?... in twenty?

  • Mrs. Erlynne: Some women bring happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever they go.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: Women don't want to be understood. They want to be loved.

  • Tuppy: We've all got a couple of skeleton in the closet.

    Mrs. Erlynne: If they are going to rattle, they may as well dance.

  • Tuppy: Every experience is of value and whatever you say about marriage it certainly is an experience.

    Mrs. Erlynne: People call something an experience they usually mean it was a mistake.

  • Tuppy: Aren't you clever?

    Mrs. Erlynne: I read it somewhere.

    Tuppy: I like a good read myself. Nothing too laborious. I don't want to tamper with natural ignorance.

  • Tuppy: No, I think I'll do very well to marry you.

    Mrs. Erlynne: How very practical.

    Tuppy: Oh, I've begun too many romances out of sentiment. They always end in settlement.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: Keep him out all night. Get him drunk if you have to. Just don't let him come home.

    Tuppy: Why? What? What?

    Mrs. Erlynne: I like you, I do. But if this is going to work between us, you can't do that.

    Tuppy: Do what?

    Mrs. Erlynne: "Where? What? Why?" I can't always explain myself to myself let alone anyone else.

    Tuppy: Good for you - takes the pressure off. Nine times out of ten, men don't give two pins about why they just feel obliged to take an interest.

  • Meg Windermere: I'm going to tell him the truth.

    Mrs. Erlynne: What you did is your mistake. Your sack of bricks. You carry it. You don't confess and hand it off to someone who loves you.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: If you go out the back, you'll never come in the front... A lady always leaves the way she came.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: I need an opinion from home. Now be honest. Would you wear it?

    Meg Windermere: Well, it doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it?

    Mrs. Erlynne: That depends on the imagination. Some men have more than others.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: I was married - I didn't take to it.

    Tuppy: People change. You might feel differently.

    Mrs. Erlynne: When I think of it, I think of a room where you can't open a window, where there is no window. Every day you wake up and the room is smaller. You don't notice, not at first. It happens slowly. In inches. Then one morning, you open your eyes and the room is so small you... you can't move. You can't take a breath. You have to get out. You can't think of anything else. Or anyone else.

    Tuppy: You married the wrong man, that's all.

    Mrs. Erlynne: He married the wrong woman.

  • Meg Windermere: I swear on my mother.

    Mrs. Erlynne: Pardon?

    Meg Windermere: She's my guardian angel. My whole life I wanted to be like her.

    Mrs. Erlynne: I'm sure she wouldn't hold you to such a standard.

    Meg Windermere: She'd be so ashamed of me now.

    Mrs. Erlynne: We all straddle the abyss, Mrs Windemere. If we never look down, how can we know who we are? A mother could never be ashamed of a daughter who didn't fall in.

  • Mrs. Erlynne: How easy life is for men! A freshly pressed suit - and they are young again.

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