My Brilliant Career (1979)

Wendy Hughes: Aunt Helen

Quotes 

• Aunt Helen : There's any amount of love and good in the world, you know? It doesn't just come to you. You have to search for it.

• Aunt Helen : Now, plain looks never stopped anyone from being - intelligent or witty or making friends. Being beautiful is - no guarantee of success in anything. But, it does help a little.

• Aunt Helen : Being misunderstood, that's a trial we must all bear. You have a wildness of spirit which is going to get you in trouble all of your life. So, you must learn to control it. You try and cultivate a little more feminine vanity.

• Uncle Julius : Our Sybylla appears to have hidden talents.

  Aunt Helen : The only trouble is - you don't know what she'll do next.

  Harry Beecham : I seem to recall, she was always like that.

• Aunt Helen : Marriage gives us respectability, dear, as you'll learn.

  Sybylla : No. That is just what men want us to believe! Stupid idiots like Frank Hawdon! Well, I won't be caught up in it. Not by him or anyone!

• Aunt Helen : Be careful how you treat him.

  Sybylla : What do you mean?

  Aunt Helen : Oh, you know what they say,"Heed the spark or you may dread the fire."

  Sybylla : For heaven's sake!

  Aunt Helen : Sybylla, he is a man of the world! He has quite a reputation with the ladies in - Melbourne.

  Sybylla : Yes, I bet he has.