Emma (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.2 (2009)
Romola Garai: Emma
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Quotes
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Mr. Knightley : [of Frank] He doesn't come here for 20 years and then disappears for a day.
Emma Woodhouse : He had important business.
[pause while Mr. Knightley looks at her quizzically]
Emma Woodhouse : He's gone to London to have his hair cut.
Mr. Knightley : His hair cut? Imperative business indeed.
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Emma Woodhouse : [helping Harriet understand Mr. Elton's riddle] Well look here, "The wealth and pomp of kings." Kings. What does that suggest?
[Harriet stares blankly at the page]
Emma Woodhouse : [prompting] Perhaps court. And "the monarch of the seas." Seas?
[Harriet looks at her confused]
Emma Woodhouse : [prompting] Maybe a ship.
Harriet Smith : Ship? Court? Shipcourt!
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Emma : I shall be a rich old maid and it is only poor old maids who invite the world's ridicule.
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Mr. Woodhouse : Poor Miss Taylor. We hardly ever see her now.
Emma : Father, we have only missed seeing them one day since they were married!
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Mr. Knightley : Well, I was your considerable superior in years when you were the age of little Emma here.
[gestures toward infant niece]
Emma : And I am sure that you were by far my superior in judgment when I was. But surely we have grown closer in judgment as the years have passed?
Mr. Knightley : Well, I had the advantage of not being a pretty woman and a spoiled child.
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Emma : I think to set off like that, impulsively, recklessly even, to risk disobeying his aunt in order to do a duty to his father shows a fineness of spirit in Mr. Churchill, a keenness of feeling, a most romantic nature and a thoroughly good heart.
Mr. Knightley : It's the horse I'm sorry for!
Emma : For my part, it only makes my anticipation of meeting this young man even stronger. Any woman would respond to such heroic, gentlemanly impulses.
Mr. Knightley : I thought gentlemen always rode in carriages?
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Mr. Knightley : He doesn't come here for 20 years and then he disappears for a day?
Emma : He has urgent business. He has gone to London to have his hair cut.
Mr. Knightley : His hair cut? Of course, imperative business indeed.
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Emma : A gentleman would never risk a lady's reputation, unless, of course, he was most ardently in love.