- Soames Forsyte: You know nothing about it. Your friendship with her was a sham!
- June: Yes! She stole the love of my life, my future. I should hate her but the alternative was you. I cannot hate her. I can only wonder why she did not do it sooner.
- Emily: The last time I saw that expression on your face, you were Val's age.
- Soames Forsyte: Mother!
- Emily: You pestered us for months for that kitten. What was it? Six weeks old? You dressed it like a doll, fed it until it was sick, and smothered it.
- Soames Forsyte: I loved it!
- Emily: That's what I thought. I should have whipped you. I should have taught you not to love like that. With all your heart.
- Soames Forsyte: Mama...
- Emily: Yes, it was my fault. You feel things too much. You always have.
- Fleur Forsyte: I don't want to hear about her!
- Soames Forsyte: I'll tell you anyway, shall I? The great sin your father committed? Then you can write me off altogether.
- Fleur Forsyte: I said, I don't want to hear!
- Soames Forsyte: I married her because I loved her! Very simple. It's why Michael's marrying you. She abused my trust; she denied me my rights as a husband. She ignored me. She flaunted her lover in my face. She locked me out of her life, her body...
- Fleur Forsyte: Please!
- Soames Forsyte: One night, her door was open, and she was lying there, looking very beautiful. She is very beautiful, don't you think? I whispered her name, but she was asleep.
- Fleur Forsyte: Stop!
- Soames Forsyte: I must have been mad. I think I was; Mad for her. So I took her, forcibly... as punishment! And now when I see her, whenever she looks at me, I know she's thinking only of that.
- [breaks down in tears]
- [after their daughter is born]
- Annette Forsyte: Ma petite fleur.
- Soames Forsyte: Fleur. We'll call her Fleur.
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: If I were to marry you, Mr. Forsyte, would you promise me one thing?
- [long pause]
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: If our marriage is not a success, then I shall be as free as if I had never married you?
- Soames Forsyte: If we were to marry, then it would be a success.
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: You would not hold me in a marriage that was not happy?
- Soames Forsyte: Miss Heron, Irene, I promise I would make you happy.
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: You must promise I would be free.
- Soames Forsyte: Then I do.
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: You swear it?
- Soames Forsyte: I do solemnly swear it.
- Jolyon: I have been asked to let you go.
- Helene Hilmer: I'm not surprised. I was not born for this kind of life. I know I can be resentful sometimes, but I never expected to find myself in this situation.
- Jolyon: The quality of your work is not in question.
- Helene Hilmer: Oh, I see. I hope Mrs. Forsyte will provide me with a character.
- Jolyon: You don't understand. There has been an implication that my conduct towards you has been improper. I have denied any impropriety, which, as you know, has been the case.
- [long pause]
- Jolyon: In my mind I am guilty of the grossest misconduct.
- Fleur Forsyte: Don't give up on us, Jon! Please, don't give up!
- Irene Forsyte nee Heron: Go home with you father, my dear. Give us all time to think.
- [touches Fleur's arm]
- Fleur Forsyte: Don't touch me! I know what you're doing: Pretending to make yourself look nice. Lying, so you can have him all to yourself! Well, he's mine, do you understand? He's mine!
- Jon Forsyte: Is that how you really think?
- Fleur Forsyte: No, but we're meant for each other. We're meant to be.
- Jon Forsyte: No, I don't think so...
- Soames Forsyte: It's far better to be with someone who loves you more than you love them. There's nothing worse than always trying to please someone; hoping they'll look at you, smile at you...
- June: There is something ironic, isn't there, that all the people I love, REALLY love, all gravitate to her in the end. And they always love Irene more.
- Fleur Forsyte: One last kiss. Remember, whatever happens we'll pick up just as we are.
- Jon Forsyte: What do you mean?
- Fleur Forsyte: I'll be faithful to you. I will, I promise. Forever and ever.
- June Forsyte: [talking with her father Jolyon] Why do I always lose everyone I love? You can't die! All that talk of love, about my love for you. No-one loves you more than I do! You're my rock, the one I am cling to. I won't let this happen!
- Michael Mont: There is something I have been waiting to tell you. I love you, Fleur Forsyte! I love you! I do!
- Fleur Forsyte: Oh, no, you don't!
- Michael Mont: Oh, yes, I do!
- Jon Forsyte: Can't you see? I'm dying for you! But we mustn't rush this. It's the most important thing. It's everything!
- Fleur Forsyte: Don't break my heart, Jon. I can't stand if you did.
- Jon Forsyte: How could I ever do that?
- Michael Mont: You are the better half of myself, the missing half.
- Fleur Forsyte: How can you say that? You don't even know me.
- Irene Forsyte nee Heron: Do you love her, my darling? I mean, really love her.
- Jon Forsyte: I wouldn't be holding onto it if I didn't.
- Irene Forsyte nee Heron: You've only known her a few months. You're 19 years old, she is very beautiful and you want her. I mean, who wouldn't? But is that love? Does she feel the way you do?
- Jon Forsyte: Of course she does.
- George Liversedge: [talking about Irene, who has disappeared] Ten to one he
- [Soames]
- George Liversedge: has finished her off and buried her in the garden.
- Soames Forsyte: [to Irene] What I meant to say is that all that might have been saved if only you have done your duty, be a wife to me! That's all I wanted! All I ever wanted!... You're so cold! Made of stone! Always made of stone!
- Michael Mont: Sometimes I think that you like me. Otherwise why do you want me here? Why do you keep me hanging on? But sometimes I think that you really don't care at all. Is there someone else?
- Fleur Forsyte: No.
- Michael Mont: Then I'll gonna ask you again. And as a fiancé I will not be coming back.
- Fleur Forsyte: But we are friends.
- Michael Mont: I believe I can make you happy as more than that. Will you marry me, Fleur?
- Fleur Forsyte: Would you do anything for me? Even if everybody told you not do. would you stand by me anyway?
- Michael Mont: If you were my wife I would.
- Fleur Forsyte: Then I'll do it. I'll marry you.
- June: Come to pay your last respects?
- Soames Forsyte: Your guests are waiting.
- June: I'll introduce you: Mr. and Mrs. Baines, meet the man who killed your nephew!
- Jon Forsyte: She can't love him!
- Prosper Profound: She is marrying him.
- Jon Forsyte: When?
- Prosper Profound: Soon.
- Jon Forsyte: But she must doing it to hurt me!
- Prosper Profound: Why don't you find out?
- Jon Forsyte: Do you love him? Really love him?
- Fleur Forsyte: What do you think?
- Jon Forsyte: It's possible...
- Fleur Forsyte: So you believe I can do that? Love you one day body and soul and forget about you the next?
- Jon Forsyte: So, if you don't love him, why are you marrying him?
- Fleur Forsyte: To get away from home of course! I can't stand my father. Michael's nice, he'll look after me.
- Jon Forsyte: Nice isn't enough! A marriage for convenience is terrible!
- Fleur Forsyte: What are my alternatives?
- Jon Forsyte: You know I still love you!
- Fleur Forsyte: How can I know that?
- Jon Forsyte: Oh, I think about you every moment of every day!
- Fleur Forsyte: Is that why you're here?
- Soames Forsyte: I should have brought a horse whip!
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: What do you want?
- Soames Forsyte: I am here to tell you that unless you swear to keep clear of each other I shall divorce her with every circumstance and degradation to you both. Will you swear it? Will you keep away from her?
- Jolyon: No.
- Soames Forsyte: Your name will be dirt.
- Jolyon: So be it.
- Soames Forsyte: What about you? Will you swear it?
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: No.
- Soames Forsyte: I have enought evidence, you know. You have been watched, everywhere. You've been watched. And it won't just be desertion. You know what I am saying.
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: Yes.
- Soames Forsyte: And it doesn't worry you?
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: Please, go.
- Soames Forsyte: Adulteress! That term fits, does it not?
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: Yes.
- Soames Forsyte: You have...?
- Irene Forsyte née Heron: Yes.
- Soames Forsyte: You're a devil. And you, an imbeseler of trust property, a thief stealing his cousin's wife!
- Jolyon: Go!
- Soames Forsyte: You'll pay for it.
- Jolyon: I shall be very happy.
- Soames Forsyte: I hope you treat him as you treated me.
- Annette Forsyte née Lamotte: Michael's staying for lunch.
- Soames Forsyte: Does she like him?
- Annette Forsyte née Lamotte: Fleur?
- Soames Forsyte: Of course, Fleur!
- Annette Forsyte née Lamotte: I haven't asked her.
- Soames Forsyte: Usually she'd have told me. Until this summer... This boy! I've done nothing wrong!
- Annette Forsyte née Lamotte: This boy, Jon Forsyte, he hurt her. She's angry.
- Soames Forsyte: Why with me?
- Annette Forsyte née Lamotte: Because she can be.
- Jon Forsyte: You can't marry him! You can't...
- Fleur Forsyte: And who are you to tell me that? If you won't have me, then I shall do it my own way. And I'll forget about you, Jon Forsyte! I swear I will!
- Montague Dartie: Don't say you've learnt something along the way?
- Winifred Dartie nee Forsyte: Regret.
- Montague Dartie: That alright.
- Winifred Dartie nee Forsyte: That I was faithful to you.
- Soames Forsyte: My whole life, I have dedicated to you - to making you happy!
- Fleur Forsyte: But you got it wrong, didn't you? You thought I cared about dresses and frippery. I'd have married Jon in my underclothes, and because of you - YOU! - he stopped loving me. The one thing I really wanted!