Quotes about Breakups

Dr. Peter Blood: [Captain Blood kills Levasseur]
And that my friend ends a partnership that should never have begun.

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Bill Sampson: You know, there isn't a playwright in the world who could make me believe this would happen between two adult people. Goodbye, Margo.
Margo Channing: Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson: That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.

- Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve (1950)

Peggy Stephenson: I've made up my mind.
Al Stephenson: Good girl.
Milly Stephenson: To do what?
Peggy Stephenson: I'm going to break that marriage up! I can't stand it seeing Fred tied to a woman he doesn't love and who doesn't love him. Oh, it's horrible for him. It's humiliating and it's killing his spirit. Somebody's got to help him.

- Teresa Wright (as Peggy Stephenson) in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Aunt Alicia: Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more housholds than infidelity.

- Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi (1958)

Pilar: Look I am ugly. Yet one can have a feeling here [points to her heart] that blinds a man while he loves you. He thinks you are beautiful. And one day for no reason at all he sees you ugly as you really are. And he is not blind anymore. Then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you - and you lose your man and your feeling. Then one day the feeling, that idiotic feeling that you are beautiful, grows inside you again and another man sees you and thinks you are beautiful and it's all to do over again. Now I'm past it. But it still might come again.

- Katina Paxinou (as Pilar) in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)