Island in the Sun (1957)

Joan Collins: Jocelyn Fleury

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Quotes 

• Jocelyn Fleury : Whatever happens, I want you to remember one thing: you'll never be more loved than you are right now.

• Jocelyn Fleury : Tell me about Egypt. Was it madly dull?

  Euan Templeton : Too many pyramids.

  Jocelyn Fleury : And not enough girls?

  Euan Templeton : None to write home about.

• Maxwell Fleury : [reading from a newspaper]  "Presumably they did not know that Julian Fleury's mother, who died in childbirth, was a Jamaican with native ancestry" Is it true?

  Julian Fleury : It's true.

  Maxwell Fleury : What were you lashing out when you tried to slap me? Your own guilt, your betrayal of us?

  Julian Fleury : Betrayal? Your mother never knew?

  Maxwell Fleury : She knew. Didn't you mother?

  Mrs. Fleury : I knew.

  Julian Fleury : But how?

  Mrs. Fleury : An anonymous letter. Came ten years ago.

  Julian Fleury : And you never mentioned it?

  Julian Fleury : I saw no reason to. I wanted to keep things as they were.

  Maxwell Fleury : Faithful wife. Noble mother.

  Julian Fleury : Maxwell, stop it.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How do you expect him to feel? How do you think I feel? To believe that you belong to one kind of a world and then suddenly... when I asked you if there was any reason that I shouldn't marry Euan, you said no.

  Julian Fleury : I said that was no *good* reason.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How can you say that? Euan's heir to a title. Can you picture a black man sitting in the House of Lords if we had a son?

  Julian Fleury : There's no need to exaggerate. My mother was three-quarters white, I've only one-sixteenth colored blood. The chances are your children will be *completely* white.

• Mrs. Fleury : I must ask you for the same consideration you asked me. I'd rather your father... I'd rather my husband didn't know.

  Jocelyn Fleury : You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.

  Mrs. Fleury : Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.

• Euan Templeton : Ever think of getting away?

  Jocelyn Fleury : Constantly.

  Euan Templeton : Where?

  Jocelyn Fleury : Oh, I don't know. Paris. London. It really doesn't matter. You know, you get awfully tired of all this sun.

• Mrs. Fleury : I'd rather your father - I'd rather my husband, didn't know.

  Jocelyn Fleury : You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.

  Mrs. Fleury : Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.

• Jocelyn Fleury : I won't have you humiliate yourself for my sake, or for Euan's, or even for Lord Templeton.

• Euan Templeton : What's your life like here? Gay?

  Jocelyn Fleury : Not very. This is a small island and there's a dozen girls like myself.

  Euan Templeton : And not enough men.

• Jocelyn Fleury : You think I'm rather useless, don't you. Parasitic. That all women of my kind are. Oh, no, it's true. Since we don't know anything. Oh, the ground rules for tennis or the recipe for shrimp curry, a little charity and nursing, but, nothing very important. I wish there were something worthwhile I could learn.

• Jocelyn Fleury : It's perfectly clear. A romance. Isn't that what you wanted? Eighteen months was such a long time in Egypt - and without a girl.

• Jocelyn Fleury : In about three months, I want to go to Canada. I want to start making the arrangements now.

  Mrs. Fleury : Canada? Why on earth do you want to go there?

  Jocelyn Fleury : Because I'm pregnant.

  Mrs. Fleury : Does Euan know?

  [Jocelyn shakes her head no] 

  Mrs. Fleury : You're sure that you are?

  Jocelyn Fleury : There isn't any doubt.

  Mrs. Fleury : Well, you're certainly calm about it. You might show some shame, some guilt.

  Jocelyn Fleury : If it will make you feel any happier, I feel quite guilty.

• Jocelyn Fleury : What was the name of the film we were supposed to see?

  Euan Templeton : "Red Shoes".

  Jocelyn Fleury : Oh. Was it good?

  Euan Templeton : A bit long.

• Jocelyn Fleury : Do you think he'd run the risk of having a grandson, an eventual heir, who's part negro?