Shirley Valentine Quotes

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

I couldn't see myself as some twenty-first century Shirley Valentine, sitting on the rocks, a thousand miles from the nearest Waterstones.

One night sitting beside the Greek shore, Shirley thinks to herself, "I've allowed myself to lead this little life when inside me there is so much more...That's where Shirley Valentine disappeared to. She got lost in all this unused life.

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.

It was the baby’s screams that weren’t quite right. Shirley, her name was. Her low, terrible wails echoed from some upstairs room. They sounded too thin and oddly… Animalistic. Unnatural.