Mrs. Sedley: I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer.
Amelia Sedley: This is all just a blessing in disguise.
Becky Sharp: Well, the disguise is convincing.
Miss Matilda Crawley: Oh, please tell me there's something disreputable in your past.
Becky Sharp: Well, my father was an artist.
Miss Matilda Crawley: Ah, that's better, a starving one I hope.
Becky Sharp: Absolutely ravenous.
Becky Sharp: Two men and two men only will enter my bedchamber. My husband and the doctor.
Becky Sharp: Revenge may be wicked, but it's perfectly natural.