“So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?--Julia Flyte”

“What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star?--Julia Flyte”

“...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager...”

“If you weren't such a great man, you'd be a terrible bore.”

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

“...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...”