Emma (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.3 (2009)

Jonny Lee Miller: George Knightley

Quotes 

• Emma : [about Frank's absence]  He has urgent business... He has gone to London... to have his haircut.

  Mr. Knightley : His hair cut?

  [Sarcastically] 

  Mr. Knightley : Of course imperative business indeed.

• Emma : I was completely mistaken in Mr. Elton. There is a littleness about him which you saw and I did not. He always was a small man, made smaller by his wife! I was convinced he was in love with Harriet. How could I have been so stupid?

  Mr. Knightley : I will do you the justice of saying that you would have chosen better for him than he did for himself. Miss Smith has some first-rate qualities, infinitely preferable to a sensible man than Mrs. Elton. I was surprised by our conversation.

• Emma : We know how highly you think of Jane Fairfax.

  Mr. Knightley : Anyone may know how highly I think of Miss Fairfax.

  Emma : And yet, you may not be aware how highly. The extent of your admiration may take you by surprise one day.

• Mr. Knightley : If you were to ask me, I would say that you were in need of a project.

• Mr. Knightley : There is but one married woman in the world who I could ever allow to invite what guests she pleased to Donwell.

  Mrs. Elton : Mrs. Weston, I suppose.

  Mr. Knightley : No, Mrs. Knightley. And until she is in being, I will manage matters myself.