A Taste of Honey (1961)

Dora Bryan: Helen

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Quotes 

• Helen : Oh, Jo, why can't you learn from *my* mistakes? It takes half your lifetime to learn from your own.

• Jo : I hope to be dead and buried by the time I reach your age. Just think, you've been living for forty years.

  Helen : I know, I must be a biological phenomenon.

  Jo : You don't look forty. You look a sort of well-preserved sixty.

• [Jo and her mother have done a moonlight flit to a new house where they have to share a bed] 

  Helen : What's that bed like?

  Jo : It's like a coffin - only half as comfortable.

  Helen : Well, it's where we all end up in the end.

• [having just moved into their new house, there are still cases to be unpacked] 

  Jo : Aren't we gonna clear this luggage up?

  Helen : Oh. it'll look all right in the dark.

  Jo : Yes, it's seen at its best, this room, in the dark.

  Helen : Well, everything's seen at its best in the dark - even me.