- Soames Forsyte: [In a disparaging way as Young Jolyon is leaving] I understand you're teaching now at some sort of second-rate art school... or something.
- Young Jolyon Forsyte: [Replying as he is leaving] The art school is first rate. I'm second rate.
- 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.
- Irene Forsyte: [Seeing Soames for the first time in years in a Parisian gallery] Five years! It's quite a long time! How is London?
- Soames Forsyte: [Sadly] Just as gray as ever. Perhaps a little grayer... now.
- Old Jolyon Forsyte: I arranged a respectable marriage for the boy.
- Irene Forsyte: Uncle Jolyon, do you think marriage without love can be respectable.
- Irene Forsyte: For once I wasn't thinking about the Forsythes.
- Soames Forsyte: Then it's about time you did, my dear. When you marry a Forsythe, you become a Forsythe.
- Irene Forsyte: It's clear you haven't met June's grandfather.
- Philip Bosinney: Oh, don't worry about the Forsyte family. You'll all find me very tolerant. I'll hold neither their wealth nor their antecedents against them.
- Irene Forsyte: That's charming of you.
- Philip Bosinney: Not at all. I never believe in judging anyone by what I hear about them. Many a kindly heart beats beneath a diamond tie pin.
- Philip Bosinney: [to Irene, after meeting the Forsyte family] All those people sniffing at me made me feel like a doubtful egg they couldn't digest.
- Irene Forsyte: Won't you come in?
- Young Jolyon Forsyte: I make it a point never to darken Forsyte doors.
- Irene Forsyte: It's hard to believe that you're a Forsyte.
- Young Jolyon Forsyte: Now that *is* a compliment.