Relative Values (2000)
Jeanne Tripplehorn: Miranda Frayle, Freda Birch
Quotes
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Miranda Frayle : I'm absolutely determined that the Countess of Marshwood shall be the longest, and greatest, role I ever played.
Felicity Marshwood : I do hope you won't find it too much of a strain.
Nigel : Mother!
Felicity Marshwood : I do know what I'm talking about. I've played it for years. I find it a good part, but technically rather exhausting.
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Miranda Frayle : You planned all this business of Dora dressing up, didn't you, just to belittle me in front of Nigel, to make me look like a fool?
Felicity Marshwood : I rather think you contributed to that rather generously yourself.
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Miranda Frayle : I am leaving; I am taking the 11 o'clock train.
Nigel : No, you can't do that!
Miranda Frayle : Why?
Nigel : It's a terrible train. You have to change twice!
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Felicity Marshwood : You're surely not intending to drive alll the way back to London now? Nonsense! I won't hear of it. That long dreary road at this time of night, in the pouring rain.
Miranda Frayle : It isn't raining.
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Nigel : Miranda, will you kindly inform me what your ex-lover is doing under my roof?
Miranda Frayle : He's not under your roof.
Dora Moxton 'Moxie' : He's in the garden.
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Nigel : Somehow, and God knows how, we have to put the shattered pieces of this appalling nightmare back together again and carry on as if nothing has happened. Do I make myself clear?
Miranda Frayle : Does Bette Davis have and Oscar?
Nigel : What?