I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.