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Actor:
— If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build our future.
— Where did you read that?
— I made it up. I thought it was rather good.
— It's too good. One thing we don't want is a poet in the family.
— Would it be so bad?
— The only poet peer I am familiar with is Lord Byron. And I presume you all know how that ended.
— They do say there's a wild man inside all of us.
— If only he would stay inside.
— I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable.
— Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it, so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks.
Explanation:
Lady Edith and Lord Grantham, after learning about the wreck of the Titanic.
— Robert, dear, I don't mean to sound harsh...
— You may not mean to, but I bet you will.
— Twenty-four years ago you marries Cora, against my wishes, for her money. Give it away now, what was the point of your peculiar marriage in the first place?
— If I were to tell you she'd made me very happy, would that stretch belief?
— It's not why you chose her...