French Lieutenant's Woman Quotes & Sayings

All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too. — John Fowles

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending to a perfection, but horizontal. Time was a great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. All those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality - history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies.
- The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. — Helena Bonham Carter