“The House of Mirth” quotes

“- Lily Bart: If obliquity were a vice, we should all be tainted.
- Mrs. Julia Peniston: Only someone without a family could make such a vulgar remark.
- Lily Bart: Aunt Julia, you are my family.”

Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart
Eleanor Bron - Mrs. Julia Peniston, Lily's Aunt

“I thought that I could manage my own life, but I have been foolish. Foolish to the point of being compromised.”
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart

“Love me. But don't tell me so.”

Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart

“Men have minds like moral flypaper. They will forgive a woman almost anything except the loss of her good name.”
Jodhi May - Grace Julia Stepney

“Sometimes, I think a man understands a woman's motives better than her own sex does.”
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart

“- Lily Bart: You never speak to me.
- Lawrence Selden: I'm never near you long enough.”
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart
Eric Stoltz - Lawrence Selden

“- Lawrence Selden: Isn't marriage your vocation? Isn't it what you're all brought up for?
- Lily Bart: You speak as if I should marry the first man who came along.”
Eric Stoltz - Lawrence Selden
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart