"I am too pure for you or anyone."
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"It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on."
"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested."
"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn."
"British women can't cook."
"That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?"
"It's a vast waste of space."
"Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived."
"It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."
"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
"A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience."
"Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then."
"Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf."
"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
"There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?"
"Can you tell the difference between them?"
"You managed not to get eaten then?"
"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."
"You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?"
"They're not mating are they?"