Emma (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2009)

Romola Garai: Emma

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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!

• Emma : I shall be a rich old maid and it is only poor old maids who invite the world's ridicule.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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?

• Mr. Elton : I have never paid the slightest attention to Miss Smith, except as your friend. For herself, I couldn't care less if she lives or dies.

  Emma : Oh!

• 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.

• Emma : A gentleman would never risk a lady's reputation, unless, of course, he was most ardently in love.