The Favourite (2018)

Rachel Weisz: Lady Sarah

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• Lady Sarah : Abigail has done this. She does not love you.

  Queen Anne : Because how could anyone? She wants nothing from me. Unlike you.

  Lady Sarah : She wants nothing from you. And yet somehow she is a lady. With 2000 a year, and Harley sits on your knee most nights.

  Queen Anne : I wish you could love me as she does!

  Lady Sarah : You wish me to lie to you? "Oh you look like an angel fallen from heaven, your majesty." No. Sometimes, you look like a badger. And you can rely on me to tell you.

  Queen Anne : Why?

  Lady Sarah : Because I will not lie! That is love!

• Godolphin : Obviously you have chosen to keep the particulars of your dismissal from me. I shall leave a gap in the conversation for you to remedy that.

  [silence and dead stares from Lady Sarah] 

  Godolphin : I do not know of women and their feelings, but I know they nurse their hurts like wailing newborns.

  Lady Sarah : Godolphin, I have a surge of desire to see your nose broken. Your point?

• Lady Sarah : [to Queen Anne]  You look like a badger.

• Lady Sarah : Anne, you are too sensitive.

  Queen Anne : And you are too mean and uncaring, some days.

  Lady Sarah : Some days I'm quite lovely though. Let's think on them!

• Abigail : Lady Marlborough.

  Lady Sarah : Oh, dear. The servant is dressed in the clothes of a lady. How... whimsical.

  Abigail : My dear friend and cousin, how good to see you've returned from...

  Lady Sarah : Hell. I'm sure you shall pass through it one day.

• Queen Anne : [after her fall]  They were all staring, weren't they? I can tell even if I can't see. And I heard the word fat! Fat and ugly!

  Lady Sarah : Anne, no one but me would dare and I did not.

• Harley : Might I remind you, you are not the queen.

  Lady Sarah : No, she has sent me to speak for her. She is unwell.

  Godolphin : What says she?

  Lady Sarah : That Harley is a fop and a prat and smells like a ninety-six-year-old French whore's vajuju.

• Lady Sarah : Mrs Meg, your cream bill is outrageous. Are you bathing in it to help your hemorrhoids?

• Lady Sarah : You do not lisp but you are mad. Giving me a palace?

  Queen Anne : I have been wanting to give you something for quite some time now. Seemed like the perfect opportunity with Marlborough winning.

  Lady Sarah : It is a monstrous extravagance, Mrs. Morley. We are at war.

  Queen Anne : We won!

  Lady Sarah : Oh, it is not over. We must continue.

  Queen Anne : Oh. Oh, I did not know that.

• Lady Sarah : [to Harley]  Your mascara is running. If you want to fix yourself we can discuss this later.

• Lady Sarah : Where am I?

  Mae : You're in heaven. That's God. You'll meet him later.

• Abigail : [about the war]  If he dies?

  Lady Sarah : Did you not sacrifice your cunt to a fatty German to save your father?

  Abigail : Yes.

  Lady Sarah : There is always a price to pay. I am prepared to pay it.

• Lady Sarah : There are limits to what one can give.

• Lady Sarah : I love you, but that I will not do.

  Queen Anne : If you love me...

  Lady Sarah : Love has limits.

  Queen Anne : It should not.

• Lady Sarah : Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun.

• Abigail : [after Sarah slaps Abigail twice in the face]  Obviously you still have some anger to expiate. I'll allow it this once.

  Lady Sarah : Congratulations on your wedded bliss.

  Abigail : [snorts dismissively] 

• Harley : I wish to make a statement to the Queen.

  Lady Sarah : State it to me. I love a comedy. Is there cake?

• Abigail : When I was 15, my father lost me in a card game.

  Lady Sarah : You are not serious.

  Abigail : He was very upset about it. Took off into the forest with nothing but a scullery maid and a dozen bottles for solace.

• Abigail : Can I ask you something?

  Lady Sarah : As long as you're aware that I have a gun.

• Lady Sarah : Let's shoot something!

• Lady Sarah : [to Abigail]  If you do not go, I will start kicking you and I will not stop.

• Lady Sarah : None for the queen.

  Queen Anne : What?

  Lady Sarah : Well you cannot have hot chocolate. Your stomach, the sugar inflames it.

  Queen Anne : Abigail, hand me that cup!

  Lady Sarah : [casually]  Do not.

  Abigail : I'm sorry. I do not know what to do.

  Lady Sarah : Oh fine, give it to her. And you can get a bucket and mop for the aftermath.

• Abigail : I hoped I might be employed here. By you. As something.

  Lady Sarah : A monster for the children to play with, perhaps?

• [first lines] 

  Queen Anne : How was my speech?

  Lady Sarah : You were brilliant.

  Queen Anne : Did I lisp?

  Lady Sarah : You don't lisp.

  Queen Anne : I know. That was what was so troubling about it. The thought that I suddenly did.

• Lady Sarah : I am not food! You cannot just eat and eat!

  Queen Anne : And yet you are tasty and salty.

• Lady Sarah : I liked your father, he had charm to burn.

• Lady Sarah : Would you like a bite of my new maid before you leave?

• Queen Anne : Are the people really angry about the land tax?

  Lady Sarah : They'll be angrier when the French are sodomising their wives and planting their fields with garlic.

• Lady Sarah : Oh, my God. You actually think you have won.

  Abigail : Haven't I?

  Lady Sarah : We were playing very different games.

  Abigail : Well, all I know is, your carriage awaits and my maid is on her way up with something called a pineapple.

• Lady Sarah : She is a viper.

• Lady Sarah : Is my horse alive or did you eat it?

  Mae : I sold it.

• Lady Sarah : I started looking over some of the many, many, many letters you've written to me. 'I long for your embrace', 'I long for the heat from your naked body on mine.' It's very intense. Very - explicit. I thought I'd misplaced some of them the other day. It was quite a fright. What if say that son of a bitch Jonathan Swift got his hands on them? In his newspaper the next day? You would be ruined.

  Queen Anne : You would never.

  Lady Sarah : You have no idea what I would do for my country.

• Lady Sarah : How goes the Kingdom?

• Lady Sarah : If you offer me tea, you will forgive me if I don't accept.

• Lady Sarah : I had a dream that this very small Frenchman covered in blood, was carrying his head around feeding it brie.

• Lady Sarah : Earl Stratford, do not come near me whining today or I will crush your tiny heart to liver.

• Queen Anne : We should ask people. Get some people in from the villages and ask them.

  Lady Sarah : That is not how matters of state are dealt with. People are led, they do not lead.

• Lady Sarah : You are dismissed from my service. Go back to Mrs Meg tell her to find you a position in the scullery. And if she asks why, tell her 'Because I am a disloyal little bitch'.

• Queen Anne : You are a dear Abigail. I shall retire for the evening.

  Abigail : Shall I prepare your bed Queen Anne?

  Lady Sarah : Or shall you and I adjourn to your apartments for sherry?