Siegfried Sassoon: All evasions are elegant. Think of politics.
Glen Byam Shaw: Purity is like virginity. As soon as you touch it, it becomes corrupt.
Siegfried Sassoon: Bravery is only cowardice in extremis. At the root of bravery lies terror, and the fear of fear.
Stephen Tennant: Oh, I look 500 years old / Some say I am beautiful / And, as an aesthete / I feel that beauty is eternal / We see it in the eyes of those who love us.
Dr. Rivers: I trust after this disclosure, you will be discreet.
Siegfried Sassoon: Discretion is my middle name.
Glen Byam Shaw: Friends may come, friends may go. Enemies are always faithful.
Dr. Rivers: Why not?
Siegfried Sassoon: Too afraid, too inhibited. Shamed by an inner corruption. Or perhaps it's simply because of... What's the phrase? The love that dare not speak its name.
Dr. Rivers: You are not alone in that respect.
Siegfried Sassoon: I think he's still in love with you.
Ivor Novello: The main drawback with love is that it descends, all too quickly, into possessiveness.
Siegfried Sassoon: Why do all the worst terrors come at night?
Dr. Rivers: The night is, I think, like the unconscious. Waiting all day so that it can steal over you in the dark.
Dr. Rivers: I've always thought that politicians were too stupid to be subtle.
Siegfried Sassoon: Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant.
Siegfried Sassoon: The moment passes, but the hurt remains.
Siegfried Sassoon: Pain is not the only terror. There are many more.
Dr. Rivers: Can you name them?
Siegfried Sassoon: If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors.
