Quotes from Greer Garson movies and TV shows

Soames Forsyte: I wish you'd allow me to choose your friends.
Irene Forsyte: As you choose my dresses?
Soames Forsyte: I think you'd admit that I've made you one of the best-dressed women in London. Surely you have no complaints on that score.

Old Jolyon Forsyte: I arranged a respectable marriage for the boy.
Irene Forsyte: Uncle Jolyon, do you think marriage without love can be respectable.

Kay Miniver: Death can be easy. It's living that's difficult.

Paula: Oh Smithy, You're ruining my makeup.

Smithy: I don't even know who I am.
Paula: Well, I know who you are. You're someone awfully nice.

Smithy: Miss Hanson.
Paula: Yes, Mr. Rainier.
Smithy: Owing to lamentable weakness of character I'm having lunch at the Savoy - with your approval, I understand.
Paula: I thoroughly approve.

Louis Howe: You don't have to remember a thing. You just read it.
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like reading a speech.
Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?

Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin, may I say a word?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Certainly, if you're going to agree with me.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Then I have nothing to say.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: That is hardly a sign of wifely devotion.