“First maid:If I was a princess, with silver and gold,And loved by a hero, I'd never grow old:Oh, if a young hero came a-marrying me,I'd always be beautiful, happy, and free!Chorus:Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat.”
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
“You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.”
“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”
“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”