Lady Edith: So he slipped the hook.
Lady Mary: At least I’m not fishing with no bait.
Laura Carmichael and Michele Dockery in the period drama Downtown Abbey (2010 – 2015) The scathing insult reflects the competitive disharmony between the two sisters that flowed throughout the whole show.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Said by Lord Henry in Oscar Wilde’s sole novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
Gina Linetti: Wait, are you only hosting dinner because you want to suck up to Holt? Not cool. This was supposed to be about friendship.
Amy Santiago: You said you were only coming to see if my apartment was the reason why I was single, or my personality like you suspected.
Chelsea Peretti and Melissa Fumero in the precinct-set comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013 – )
Roger Thornhill: How do we know it’s not a fake? It looks like a fake.
Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You’re no fake. You are a genuine idiot.
Cary Grant and Paula Winslow in North by Northwest (1959)
Alex Raphael 