“FRANK: Do you know Yeats?RITA: The wine lodge?FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.RITA: No.FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.”

“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.”

“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”

“Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.”

“I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”

“When I was thirteen, I used to get high on Dylan Thomas, Blake, Wilde, and Yeats.”

“The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.”