— You're weird.
— Sorry.
— No, that was a compliment.

— You're looking fit, Harry.
— Yeah, he's absolutely gorgeous. What say we get undercover before someone murders him?

"May I pay you a compliment?"
"Another question you need never ask."
"You are the least down-to-earth person I've ever met."

Iris, if you were a melody. I used only the good notes.

— This is just perfect.
— So are you. You know what you are? You're a falsa magra. You know what that is?
— What?
— You are slender and elegant in a distance but up close, you are round and fleshy.
— Thank God for Brazilians.

— When I'm wearing a new bonnet, all the figures I ever knew go right out of my head!
— Figures are well lost when the bonnet's as pretty as that.

You look like a needle. You look like a gutted worm. You look like the number 11.

— I was surprised by the quality of California wines. And their originality. In the Napa Valley, there is interest in experimental methods. To avant-garde methods.
— What's he saying?
— Where I come from, they call it a left-handed compliment. But I don't think they have a name for it in England. It's too embedded in their culture.

— I know nothing of diplomacy.
— We are not of that opinion.
— I don't speak Persian.
— Your eyes, your smile, your posture and even your hair speak Persian.