Daniel Deronda

Contessa Maria Alcharisi:
It is a talent to love. I lacked it, and I know very well what love makes of men and women. It is subjection. I was never willingly subject to any man. Men have been subject to me.

Lady Mallinger:
It is a talent to love. I lacked it, and I know very well what love makes of men and women. It is subjection. I was never willingly subject to any man. Men have been subject to me.

Gwendolen Harleth:
You know... All my life I thought the world revolves around my hopes, my desires... Now I know the world goes on without me and my hopes, my desires mean nothing.

Daniel Deronda:
No, don't say that.

Gwendolen Harleth:
Don't be afraid. I mean to live. I am young after all, and not so bad. I shall be better for having known you.

Sir Hugo Mallinger:
Perhaps I liked a little too well having you to myself. But if I have caused you any pain which could have been avoided, I hope you will forgive me.

Daniel Deronda:
No. You've never caused me any pain. [gets up, approaches Sir Hugo and puts his hand on his shoulder] You have been the best of fathers to me.

Sir Hugo Mallinger:
[puts his hand on Daniel's] And you have been the best of sons.

[last lines]

Gwendolen Harleth:
Dear Daniel, don't think of me sorrowfully wherever you may go. You must live after life which is new, and I must live my own. I shall remember your words. Every one of them. I shall remember what you believed about me, that I am worth something after all. You have mend me more deeply and cared more fully than anyone, and I only thought of myself. And made you grieve. You mustn't grieve anymore for me. It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you. Gwendolen Grandcourt.

Sir Hugo Mallinger:
The love of your life isn't always the one you marry.

Contessa Maria Alcharisi:
It is a talent to love. I lacked it. And I know very well what love makes of men and women. It is subjection. I was never willingly subject to any man. Men have been subject to me.