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Top 160 Lucy Foley Quotes (2025 Update)
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Lucy Foley Quote: “He trusts you to be able to handle the situation on your own,’ Sophie says. ‘But perhaps that is simply too much to ask. Look at you. You’re a forty-year-old man still living under his roof, leeching off his money. He has given you everything. You’ve never had to grow up. You’ve had everything handed to you by your father on a silver platter. You’re both useless hothouse flowers, too weak for the outside world. Unable to fly the nest.”

151. “He trusts you to be able to handle the situation on your own,’ Sophie says. ‘But perhaps that is simply too much to ask. Look at you. You’re a forty-year-old man still living under his roof, leeching off his money. He has given you everything. You’ve never had to grow up. You’ve had everything handed to you by your father on a silver platter. You’re both useless hothouse flowers, too weak for the outside world. Unable to fly the nest.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “I want to stand up and say my own piece, as though she’s the prosecuting barrister, and I’m the defence. That’s not how you’re meant to feel, listening to a speech from a loved one, is it?”

152. “I want to stand up and say my own piece, as though she’s the prosecuting barrister, and I’m the defence. That’s not how you’re meant to feel, listening to a speech from a loved one, is it?”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Part of the well-oiled machinery of the day. Less worthy of proper notice, really, than the chic arrangements of greenery, the wavering flames atop the silver candlesticks.”

153. “Part of the well-oiled machinery of the day. Less worthy of proper notice, really, than the chic arrangements of greenery, the wavering flames atop the silver candlesticks.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “After uni you spend the next few years winnowing those remaining friends down, realizing that you don’t have the energy to trek across London or indeed the country to see people who have barely anything in common with you anymore.”

154. “After uni you spend the next few years winnowing those remaining friends down, realizing that you don’t have the energy to trek across London or indeed the country to see people who have barely anything in common with you anymore.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Wounds inflicted at that sort of raw, unformed time in our lives tend to cut the deepest – and leave the worst scars.”

155. “Wounds inflicted at that sort of raw, unformed time in our lives tend to cut the deepest – and leave the worst scars.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Not before I had begun half hating that little girl with everything she didn’t even know she had.”

156. “Not before I had begun half hating that little girl with everything she didn’t even know she had.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Far better to have a second wife who could never make him feel inferior, who came from somewhere so far beneath him that she would always be grateful. Someone he could mould as he chose. And I was so happy to be moulded. To become Madame Sophie Meunier with her silk scarves and diamond earrings. I could leave that place far behind. I wouldn’t end up like some of the others. Like the poor wretch who had given birth to my daughter.”

157. “Far better to have a second wife who could never make him feel inferior, who came from somewhere so far beneath him that she would always be grateful. Someone he could mould as he chose. And I was so happy to be moulded. To become Madame Sophie Meunier with her silk scarves and diamond earrings. I could leave that place far behind. I wouldn’t end up like some of the others. Like the poor wretch who had given birth to my daughter.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn’t possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”

158. “I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn’t possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Will’s always been the centre of everything, the anchor of the group, all of us revolving round him. Good at sport, good enough grades – with a bit of extra help here and there. Everyone liked him. And I guess it seemed effortless, as though he didn’t work for anything. If you.”

159. “Will’s always been the centre of everything, the anchor of the group, all of us revolving round him. Good at sport, good enough grades – with a bit of extra help here and there. Everyone liked him. And I guess it seemed effortless, as though he didn’t work for anything. If you.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “I take a big swig of my champagne. I remind myself that they were teenagers. That I am feeling envious of a seventeen-year-old who no longer exists.”

160. “I take a big swig of my champagne. I remind myself that they were teenagers. That I am feeling envious of a seventeen-year-old who no longer exists.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “Two revelations in one night.”

161. “Two revelations in one night.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “And I am unprepared, despite knowing what I have come to see. I have been ambushed, here in this place, by death. I thought that I could outrun it.”

162. “And I am unprepared, despite knowing what I have come to see. I have been ambushed, here in this place, by death. I thought that I could outrun it.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “I am only rather sorry I didn’t get the chance to plunge the knife in myself.”

163. “I am only rather sorry I didn’t get the chance to plunge the knife in myself.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “When you’ve got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn’t be enough.”

164. “When you’ve got your heart set on someone Brad Pitt could walk in and he wouldn’t be enough.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “I look down at the spilled contents, shining gold tubes of mascara and lipsticks rolling in a bid for freedom across the floorboards, an overturned compact leaking a trail of bronzing powder.”

165. “I look down at the spilled contents, shining gold tubes of mascara and lipsticks rolling in a bid for freedom across the floorboards, an overturned compact leaking a trail of bronzing powder.”

Lucy Foley Quote: “A pathetic thing to hope, but there you have it. I’ve always had to hunt for scraps where paternal affection’s concerned.”

166. “A pathetic thing to hope, but there you have it. I’ve always had to hunt for scraps where paternal affection’s concerned.”

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