“Hair swept up. Haven't touched your cake. Probably drumming your fingernails on the white linen tablecloth, the way you do when you're really feeling down. Perhaps looking at those nails thinking: 'God, I should have stopped in all my evil plotting to have that manicure, but it's too late now.”

Rupert Everett - George Downes

“Don't fix your life so that you're left alone right when you come to the middle of it.”
Nigel Hawthorne - Rodney Fraser

“A great many mistakes are made in the name of loneliness.”
William M. Holden - Mark Elliott

“You know the story. I thought I was lonely, and he forgot he was married.”

Sandra Bullock - Angela

“- Sybylla Melvyn: Why does it always have to come down to marriage?
- Aunt Gussie: Don't be foolishchild. It's natural to want someone as part of your life.
- Sybylla Melvyn: I don't want to be part of anyone.
- Aunt Gussie: Do you imagine you're the only female on earth to have such notions?”
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn
Patricia Kennedy - Aunt Gussie