My top five quotes from the
Sense and Sensibility movie. These quotes are worth remembering, perhaps to drop into everyday conversation. Even though not all strictly Austen, they are very elegant and useful.
- "What care I for colds when there is such a man?" (replace the words "cold" and "man" with whatever you like: "What care I for calories when there is such a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake?" for example)
- "Use those insipid words again, and I shall leave the room this instant!"
- "How I wish this rain would stop!"—"How I wish YOU would stop." (Although, if it is raining and you are in a different mood you may prefer a tragic whispered "Willoughby... Willoughby...")
- "Viper in my bosom!"
- "Perhaps Margaret is right... piracy is our only option."
Love quotes 2 & 5 - particularly as the actors who say them say them as they should (JA must have approved surely, even if she might not have written them!).
ReplyDeleteQuote 3 is good too, but it does require 2 people - someone who can respond to the original quote. And no one but Hugh Laurie has that same dry wit :-)
I love this movie! Makes me cry every time.
ReplyDeleteAnd I also love the Shakespeare sonnet she reads.
Oh yes, that one is worth memorising...
ReplyDeleteLove is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove... Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark which looks on tempests/storms—oh, is it storms? (tempests, tempests!)