Titanic (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2012)

Toby Jones: John Batley

Quotes 

• Annie Desmond : [telling Muriel to put on her life jacket]  Just... Just put it on and come with me.

  Muriel Batley : No. I have to get my jewels first.

  John Batley : Never mind that.

  Muriel Batley : I'm not giving them up. What else have I got to show for the last 20 years?

• John Batley : It was kind of Lord Manton to invite us.

  Muriel Batley : And we know why he was so kind.

  John Batley : He wanted to show his gratitude to someone who has worked for him with duty and discretion.

  Muriel Batley : [laughing]  Well, discretion I grant you.

  John Batley : What are you talking about?

  Muriel Batley : About a young lady in leafy Dulwich who doesn't know that she's the bastard daughter of the Earl of Manton, thanks to the ever-so-discreet John Batley, Esquire.

  John Batley : Have you been reading my papers?

  Muriel Batley : No. The birds told me. Of course I read your papers. Very dull they are, too, most of them.

  John Batley : You shouldn't have done that.

  Muriel Batley : What should I have done? Locked in a boring house on a boring street in a boring suburb of a city I hate. What would you suggest I do?

• Captain Smith : And Mrs. Batley... Did she have a good time?

  John Batley : It is hard for Mrs. Batley to have a good time.

• Muriel Batley : Why is it so hard for you to understand that I want to feel, just once... just once... that my life is worth living? That it matters that I was born. That a part, a speck of my existence has some... tiny, infinitesimal value.

  John Batley : It has value to me.

• John Batley : Are we allowed in? We're only second class.

  Second Officer Lightoller : Everyone is welcome at the service.

  Muriel Batley : What do you mean 'only'? I am not 'only' anything.

• John Batley : That's clever of you, Captain, to recognize me.

  Captain Smith : It's my job.

  John Batley : I never think of myself as particularly memorable.

• John Batley : Put on your life jacket.

  Annie Desmond : No. I don't like to.

  John Batley : If you don't wear one, men like me might think they don't have to.

  Annie Desmond : What do you mean, 'men like you'?

  John Batley : Men who can't face reality.

• Hugh, Earl of Manton : Will you shut up!

  Muriel Batley : I will not shut up for a dirty philanderer like you! Oh, yes. Quite the big nobleman now, aren't you? What about your grubby little secrets in Dulwich?

  John Batley : Come away, you foolish, foolish woman! Are you pleased with yourself? So now, even if we do survive, I won't have a job to come home to?

  Muriel Batley : Oh, stop whining.

• Muriel Batley : Well, let's be friends now. Let's put all our regrets behind us and... and die at peace with one another. Please, John.

  John Batley : Regrets? How could I have any regrets when marrying you was the most exciting... the only exciting thing I've ever done? How... How could I regret that?

• John Batley : Come on. If we're going down, we should go down fighting.