Then what is your passion, Colonel? A man must have one.
BRANDON
I think you'll find most so-called passions are, in fact, affectations.
MARIANNE
Why would anyone pretend to love art or dancing or nature?
BRANDON
As ornaments. To show off their own good taste.
If I have a passion, it is a passion distate for insincerity. Something I susppect
you can never be accused of.
MARIANNE
Then you will not mind my saying, Colonel. I think a man ought to be
at least artificially passionate, or he'd be sincerely dull.
Sense and Sensibility (2026)