A Room with a View (1985 film) Quotes

A Room with a View (1985 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . A Room with a View ended its run in 1970.

It features Ismail Merchant as producer, Richard Robbins, and Giacomo Puccini in charge of musical score, and Tony Pierce-Roberts as head of cinematography.

Each episode of A Room with a View (1985 film) is 117 minutes long. A Room with a View (1985 film) is distributed by Curzon Film Distributors.

The cast includes: Julian Sands as George Emerson, Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch, Denholm Elliott as Mr. Emerson, Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett, Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse, Judi Dench as Eleanor Lavish, Patrick Godfrey as The Reverend Mr. Eager, and Peter Cellier as Sir Harry Otway.

A Room with a View (1985 film) Quotes

Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "He has misbehaved from the first. In fact, he has behaved abominably."
• (Denholm Elliott) "Not abominably. He only tried when he should not have tried."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Mother is calling, I have got to go. They trust me."
• (Denholm Elliott) "Why should they, when you deceived everyone, including yourself?"

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Why need mother hear of it?"
• (Maggie Smith) "Well, you tell her everything, don't you?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I suppose I do, generally."
• (Maggie Smith) "There's such a beautiful confidence between you. One would hate to break it. And as I have said before, I am to blame."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I wouldn't want mother to think so."
• (Maggie Smith) "She will think so, if you tell her."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I shall never speak of it, either to mother or to anyone."
• (Maggie Smith) "We will both be as silent as the grave."

• (Helena Bonham Carter) "How quickly these accidents do happen and then one returns to the old life."
• (Julian Sands) "I don't. I mean, something's happened to me -- and to you."

Julian Sands as George Emerson

• (Julian Sands) "He's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms."

• (Julian Sands) "Kiss me, dear. Again."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "I'm reading."
• (Julian Sands) "What are you reading?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "It's from Freddy."
• (Julian Sands) "What does he say?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Silly boy. He thinks he's being dignified. I mean, everybody knew we were going away in the spring."

• (Reverend Beebe) "It's not coincidental that you're here now, when one comes to reflect on it."
• (Julian Sands) "I have reflected. It's fate. Everything is fate."
• (Reverend Beebe) "You've not reflected at all. Let me cross-examine you. Where did you meet Mr. Vyse, who will marry Miss Honeychurch?"
• (Julian Sands) "The National Gallery."
• (Reverend Beebe) "Looking at Italian art. You see, you talk of coincidence and fate. You're naturally drawn to things Italian, as are we and all our friends, aren't we, Freddy? That narrows the field immeasurably."
• (Julian Sands) "It is fate. But call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar."

• (Julian Sands) "My father says there is only one perfect view, and that's the view of the sky over our heads."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I expect your father has been reading Dante."

Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett

• (Maggie Smith) "In my small way I am a woman of the world. And I know where things can lead to."

• (Maggie Smith) "We all have our little foibles, and mine is the prompt settling of accounts."

• (Maggie Smith) "I would like to thank your father personally for his kindness to us."
• (Julian Sands) "You can't. He's in his bath."

• (Maggie Smith) "I shall never forgive myself."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "You always say that, Charlotte, but you always do forgive yourself."

Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?"

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I have no profession. My attitude; quite an indefensible one; is that as long as I am no trouble to anyone, I have the right to do as I like. It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you're right not to, but -- it would help a little, hurt a little less, if I knew why."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Because you're the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Well, I don't mean exactly that, but you will go on asking questions."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "So you do love me, little thing."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You must forgive me if I say stupid things. My brain has gone to pieces."

Patrick Godfrey as The Reverend Mr. Eager

• (Patrick Godfrey) "Remember the facts about this church of Santa Croce; how it was built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism."
• (Denholm Elliott) "Built by faith indeed. That simply means the workers weren't paid properly."

Judi Dench as Eleanor Lavish

• (Judi Dench) "A young girl, transfigured by Italy. And why shouldn't she be transfigured? It happened to the Goths."

• (Judi Dench) "Smell. A true Florentine smell. Inhale, my dear. Deeper. Every city, let me tell you, has its own smell."

Denholm Elliott as Mr. Emerson

• (Denholm Elliott) "You love George. You love the boy body and soul, as he loves you."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "But of course I do. What did you all think?"

• (Denholm Elliott) "Women like looking at a view. Men don't."

Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch

• (Rupert Graves) "Why does she look like that?"
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Like what?"
• (Rupert Graves) "Like Charlotte Bartlett."
• (Helena Bonham Carter) "Because, she is Charlotte Bartlett."

• (Rupert Graves) "Come and have a bathe."
• (Julian Sands) "I'd like that."
• (Reverend Beebe) "That's the best conversation opening I've ever heard. "How do you do. Come and have a bathe.""

Peter Cellier as Sir Harry Otway

• (Peter Cellier) "The train service has improved so."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I always travel by balloon."

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