No Accounting for Taste/Quotes

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Victoria: Hildegard, what if Victor and I don't like each other?
Maudeline: Hmpf! As if that has anything to do with marriage. Do you suppose your father and I "like" each other?

Victoria: Surely you must, a little.

Maudeline and Finnis: Of course not!

Jackie: Ok, look, Steven, these last few weeks with you have been really dirty and really wrong.
Hyde: Jackie, talking is for people who have something in common.

(they start making out)
"I'm sure you're familiar with love songs on the order of "He's just my Bill", "... my man", "... my Joe", "... my Max", and so on, where the girl who sings them tells you that, although the man she loves is antisocial, alcoholic, physically repulsive, or just plain unsanitary, that, nevertheless, she is his because he is hers, and like that."
"I'm failing to see how this relationship came to this point - he clearly can't stand her."