100+ Best Quotes from the Netflix Series, One Day (2024)

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Emma and Dexter’s evolving dynamics in One Day are characterized by their complex relationship in this British romance.

Their relationship is initially a beautiful friendship, with Emma reluctant to engage in romantic activity for fear of jeopardizing their bond.

Best Quotes from the Netflix Series, One Day That Make Us Believe in True Love

“You’ve never seen me before in your life.”
“Are people really having that good a time?”
“One selected day struck out of your life.”
“I was just waiting for you.”
“You used to make me feel good about myself.”
“We grew up together.”
“There was yet another date of greater importance.”
“It won’t always be like this.”
“I’m not being a footnote.”
“You should have said hello. When you saw me around.”
“You’re getting married, and you’re having a baby.”
“Dex, you’re having a baby, I mean, is that allowed? Will they even let you?”
“You know what they say. You always hurt the one you love.”
“Envy is the tax you pay on success.”
“One day, I’m goanna give you a compliment, and you won’t immediately reply with the price.”
“How’s our Oliver? He looks very emotional; he’s been in character for the last six weeks. I think if he could, he’d have given himself rickets.”
“It’s the dress rehearsal, and the lead is just so irredeemably terrible. It’s no wonder they put him in an orphanage.
“There’s real vanity to it, teaching. I’m hoping it’s goanna play out like Dead Poets Society. Just all adulation and no marking.”
“Fancy restaurant, rude waiter. It’s the law.”
“You know what I can’t understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are. You know, smart and funny and talented and all that. I mean, endlessly. I’ve been telling you for years. So why don’t you believe it? Why do you think people say that stuff? Do you think it’s all a conspiracy? People secretly ganging up to be nice to you?”
“I hope it doesn’t feel like a night wasted, it wasn’t a night wasted. It was memorable. Not being intimate with you was highly memorable.”
“Is that a religious thing, not sleeping together? Mm. Okay. Right. So unimaginable, is it, that someone might decline intimacy with you that it could only be explained as an order from God himself?”
“There’s been a lovely camaraderie in the company, but actings not for me.”
“What am I doing with my life? Where do I go from here?”
“I know you think they make you look like a film star, but it looks awful.”
“You know I’m forced to live vicariously through my children.”
“Who’s been sending you all those long, tearstained letters we keep forwarding?”
“Once upon a time, not so very long ago, only men were allowed to vote, women had argued for years for this basic right, but nothing change.”
“To the kid who wet himself during my soliloquy and blamed his flask.”
“To the boys in Solihull who chucked minstrels at me, and to the prefect at Marston hill who felt me up.”
“Why are you in such a rush for me to figure out what I’m doing?”
“One day things might not be this serene.”
“City of dream, a sonnet by Emma Morley, so long I wandered lonely, lost along your dusty, musty streets and tunnels and wondered where are you?”
“Somewhere in these famous streets, an even more famous band is hiding, and the first team find them wins all the swag, get to it.”
”Listen to me. You don’t tip friends it’s not a gift, cash is not a gift.”
“Some people work in a restaurant, And some people work in shop, not everyone works in media.”
“I wrote a play, and it didn’t transfer to the west end.”
“That might be how I started, but the rest has been on my own. The point is you have got to stay on the ride.”
“If people treated nursing or social work or teaching with the same reverence, they do people who work in bloody tv.”
“I’m a bore myself. You could never bore me.”
“I’m not even one in three.”
“You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are you know, smart, funny, and talented and all that I mean endlessly, so why you don’t you believe it?”
“Just suppose it was something you get over time like shingles.”
“I didn’t write any poetry or anything, but I fancied you, I fancy you.”
“It’s just my problem is that I fancy pretty much everyone.”
“I think we want different things. If you wanted a bit of fun, no strings, no obligations, I would be up for it.”
“It’s like you want me to still fancy you, a necessary condition of the cosmos or something.”
“I should always just be off to one side somewhere, winking away for you.”
“I just don’t understand why you need to humiliate people all the time.”
“A woman can pay for her half of dinner. Yeah, but you’re not woman.”
“I’m hoping its gonna play out like dead poets society.”
“I’m just happy to be doing something so I can endlessly stop pondering.”
“I always thought, he took you a bit for granted.”
”I could fly a commercial aircraft long haul.”
“You’re not smart, popular, whatever then one day you say something, and someone laughs, you just grab onto it, don’t you?”
“You think I’m bad at sport. I’m quite short, and nobody fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh.”
“If you are not funny, you’re not anything.”
“Documentary evidence would seem to suggest otherwise.”
“Everyone in the country gonna want a piece of you.”
“It all feels massive. People have sent me all this stuff like champagne companies and vodka companies.”
“If I can’t squeak with you, who can I squeak with?”
“When our floor manager puts his hands up its applause time.”
“Had seen some murder scenes in her time, but never one as this who moved the body.”
“Why don’t you go back to the play?”
“Cause that too is crap.”
“One day I’m gonna give you a compliment, and you won’t reply with the price.”
“If I ever get a mobile phone, you can buy me dinner.”
“I think it’s important not to be too sentimental about these things.”
“I know about nice people called Oliver.”
“What’s the point starting things if you’re never gonna finish them?”
“The whole time you’re looking over my shoulder for a better option.”
“This one’s got a bloody Greathouse, it’s such bollocks.”
“You’re horrible like this. You’re obnoxious.”
“A bit full of yourself but were funny too, and kind sometimes, and interested in people other than yourself.”
“Cause here in the real world I’m actually doing really well.”
“Throwing your lot in with someone who adores you, who you don’t love.”
“I think after the long holidays, we should talk about your future here.”
“Did you forget one of your dolls?
“They’re not dolls they’re figurines.”
“Why can’t you just accept that we were not right for each other?”
“Stop speaking to my mom. It’s really weird.”
“It’s starting to feel a bit sad now, a bit grubby.”
“Don’t go to the bathroom. What? Do you not believe me?”
“So obvious, the two of you just waiting to get me out the way.”
“This one’s my personal favorite. Anything felt possible in the cool of the Aegean.”
“You struggling to find a rhyme with Aegean.”
“To rest my face in the hollow of your back.”
“You were sitting in there writing these sappy love poems.”
“I expected you to have some dignity and self-respect.”
“God knows why all you do is whine and mope and moan.”
“If you ever turn up here again, I swear I will call the police.”
“You never paid the mortgage, you never did anything.”
“I got stuck, we both did, why are you saying these things?”
“I should just take you away and put it in your calamari or something.”
“You have hundreds with Dexter, and you have hardly any with me.”
“It’s just you’re funnier than me, and that’s meant to be my career.”
“My life is changing every day, in every possible way.”
“My dreams are never quite as it seems, never quite as it seems.”
“I know I felt like this before, but now I’m feeling it even more, because it came from you.”
“You just sat around all day frying bacon, watching videos feeling sorry for yourself.”

One Day teaches us that we give our whole, flawed hearts to people who see us through our worst days, our best days, through grief, success, joy, embarrassment, arguments, and dreams.

Be prepared to not only swoon but possibly shed a few tears with Ambika (Emma) and Leo’s (Dexter) breathtaking chemistry as they experience love and heartbreak.

Watch this beautiful romance series based on David Nicholl’s novel on Netflix!

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