How I liked Maggie 史密斯

"Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house."

"What's a 'weekend?'"

"I'm a woman, 瑪莉. I can be as contrary as I choose."

"You know me…Never complain, never explain."

「I was right about my maid. She’s leaving – to get married! How could she be so selfish?」

「First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I』m living in an H.G. Wells novel.」

「I knew this family was approaching disillusion, I wasn』t aware that illusion was already upon us.」

「Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.」

「We』ll have to take her abroad, in these moments you can usually find an Italian who’s not too picky.」

「Give him a date for when 瑪莉’s out of mourning. No one wants to kiss a girl in black.」

「I don』t dislike him, I just don』t like him. Which is quite different.」

「I was watching her the other night, when you spoke of your wedding. She looked like Juliet on awakening in the tomb.」

「Wasn』t there a masked ball in Paris when cholera broke out? Half the guests were dead before they left the ballroom.」

「If she won』t say yes when he might be poor, he won』t want her when he will be rich.」

「It always happens when you give these little people power, it goes to their heads like strong drink.」

「One can』t go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We』d all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.」

「She’s so slight a real necklace would flatten her.」

「Sir Richard, life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.」

「You see, sometimes we must let the blow fall by degrees. Give him time to find the strength to face it.」

「It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.」

「There can be too much truth in any relationship.

「If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.」

「The only poet peer I am familiar with is Lord Byron and I presume we all know how that ended.」

「No life appears rewarding if you think about it too much.」

「Rosamind has no interest in French. If she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she shouts.」

「Switzerland has everything to offer, except perhaps conversation. And one can learn to live without that.」

「There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don』t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.」

「Principles are like prayers. Noble of course. But awkward at a party.」

"My dear. A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears."

"No guest should be admitted without the date of their departure settled."