- Dorothea Brooke: Let us always be striving, Celia. Striving, always striving to be better than we truly are!
- Celia Brooke: But Dodo, I'm already better than you truly are.
- Rosamond Vincy: [defending herself for flirting with Lydgate] It's not my fault I'm blonde and pretty, Mary.
- Mary Garth: [bitterly] Well, you don't have to enjoy it so much!