Amazing Grace (2006)
Romola Garai: Barbara Spooner
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Quotes
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Barbara Spooner : It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.
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Pitt the Younger : Barbara. You have my deepest condolescences.
Barbara Wilberforce : [feigning seriousness] Thank you.
Pitt the Younger : But do me a favour. Make him eat some of his pets.
Barbara Wilberforce : [picking up rabbit] I rather like them.
Pitt the Younger : I like them, too - in brandy sauce.
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Barbara Wilberforce : You're discussing politics with your eyes. You might as well do it with your mouths.
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William Wilberforce : I'm against flowers in church. What have you to say?
Barbara Spooner : I am *for* them.
William Wilberforce : [both pause]
William Wilberforce : [resignedly] As am I.
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Marianne Thornton : The Romans believed this water would restore the dead to life.
Barbara Spooner : [looking at it, unimpressed] Most pump water I've investigated works in the opposite direction.
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Barbara Spooner : The people aren't so afraid, now the war in France is being won. And when they stop being afraid they rediscover their compassion.
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William Wilberforce : So the people have their compassion back.
Barbara Spooner : And you still have passion! That matters more!
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William Wilberforce : This is why I really shouldn't talk about it.
Barbara Spooner : I think you should.
[pause]
Barbara Spooner : There, we found something we don't agree on.
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Barbara Spooner : Because after night comes day.
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Marianne Thornton : [at Barbara's wedding reception] Have you forgiven us, yet?
Barbara Wilberforce : Never.
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Barbara Spooner : Well I would have been bored by botany.
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William Wilberforce : I'll never forgive him.
Barbara Spooner : I'll never forgive her.
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William Wilberforce : Well, I'm definitely alone in my opinions about the treatment of animals.
Barbara Spooner : No. I joined your Society for the Prevention of Cruelty.
William Wilberforce : Well, I'm extreme. I have a pet fox, a pet rat and a crow that can't fly. I once had a pet hare, but, it died of kindness.
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Barbara Spooner : I remember when Mr. Pitt first became Prime Minister. The two of you were like meteorites shooting through our imaginations.
William Wilberforce : Whose imaginations?
Barbara Spooner : [laughs] Girls my age.
William Wilberforce : You are one of those who stopped taking sugar in your tea.
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Barbara Spooner : My poor father almost went mad when I'd told him I'd stopped taking sugar in my tea. I was 14, reading your name in the papers, willing you to win! I told my friends there was actual slave blood in every lump of sugar.
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Maid : [enters the room] Beggin' your pardon, sir. I thought everyone was in bed.
[exits]
William Wilberforce : She brings the breakfast. What time is it?
Barbara Spooner : Does it matter?