5 quotes
You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on the ministers and generals, or warmongering imperialists, or all the other banal bogeys. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)