The House of Mirth (2000)

Jodhi May: Grace Julia Stepney

Quotes 

• Lily Bart : Grace, you know Lawrence. If I asked him to help me, told him why - would he loathe me if I told him everything?

  Grace : No - you must not do that. He is like other men. They have minds like moral flypaper. They can forgive a woman almost anything except the loss of her good name.

• Mrs. Peniston : To grow richer, when at a time when most people's investments are shrinking strikes me as being in very bad taste.

  Grace : But society still uses such men if only obliquely.

  Lily Bart : If obliquity were a vice, we should all be tainted.

• Lawrence Selden : How is life at Richfield?

  Grace : Quiet. Aunt Peniston sees very little company.

  Lawrence Selden : I'm sure your being there gave her much pleasure.

  Grace : Yes, I am as reliable as roast mutton.

• Grace : Mr Selden tells me that socially Mr Rosedale is very ubiquitous now.

• Mrs. Peniston : Do people say he's in love with her?

  Grace : People *always* say unpleasant things.

• Mrs. Peniston : Does he mean to divorce then marry her?

  Grace : No, it's - it's a flirtation, nothing more.

  Mrs. Peniston : A flirtation? With a married man? Such things were never heard of in my day.