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Mr. Touchett: Things are always different from what they might be.
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Gilbert Osmond: I know plenty of dingy people. I don't want to know any more.
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Isabel Archer: I'm rather ashamed of my plans. I make a new one every day.
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Ralph Touchett: I call a person rich when he can meet the requirements of his imagination.
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Ralph Touchett: I love you but without hope.
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Isabel Archer: Why should there be pain then? That's not the deepest thing.
Ralph Touchett: Pain's deep... but it passes, after all. It's passing now but love remains.
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Ralph Touchett: And remember this, that if you've been hated, you're also been loved.
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Isabel Archer: My cousin. He's dying. I must go to him.
Gilbert Osmond: Your cousin was dying when we married. He'll outlive us all.
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Gilbert Osmond: You don't lose your temper, you find it.
The Portrait of a Lady Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Jane Campion
Language: English,Italian Release date: January 17, 1997