North and South (TV serial) Quotes

North & South is a Historical period drama that first aired in 2004 on BBC One. North &amp ended in 2004.

North & South was on for 4 episodes. It features Kate Bartlett as producer, and Martin Phipps as composer.

Each episode of North & South is 235 min. (4 parts) long.

The cast includes: Richard Armitage as John Thornton, Daniela Denby-Ashe as Margaret Hale, John Light as Henry Lennox, Sinéad Cusack as Hannah Thornton, and Brendan Coyle as Nicholas Higgins.

North & South Quotes

Richard Armitage as John Thornton

• (Richard Armitage) "Where are you going?"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "To London. I've been to Milton."
• (Richard Armitage) "You'll not guess where I've been."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "You've been to Helstone. I thought those had all gone."
• (Richard Armitage) "I found it in the hedge row. You have to look hard. Why were you in Milton?"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "On business. Well, that is, I have a business proposition. Oh dear, I need Henry to help me explain."
• (Richard Armitage) "You don't need Henry to explain."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "I have to get this right. It's a business proposition. I have some £15,000. It is lying in the bank at present, earning very little interest. Now, my financial advisors tell me that if you were to take this money and use it to run Marlborough Mills, you could give me a much better rate of interest. So you see, it is only a business matter, you'd not be obliged to me in any way. It is you who would be doing --"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "-- me the service."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "Henry, I --"
• (John Light) "Goodbye, Margaret."
• (Richard Armitage) "You're coming home with me."

• (Richard Armitage) "Look back at me."

• (Richard Armitage) "Miss Hale, I didn't just come here to thank you. I came -- because -- I think it -- very likely -- I know I've never found myself in this position before. It's -- difficult to find the words. Miss Hale, my feelings for you -- are very strong --"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "Please. Stop. Pray, please don't go any further."
• (Richard Armitage) "Excuse me?"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "Please don't continue in that way. It's not the way of a gentleman."
• (Richard Armitage) "I'm well aware that in your eyes at least, I'm not a gentleman. But I think I deserve to know why I am offensive."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "It offends me that you should speak to me as if it were your -- duty to rescue my reputation."
• (Richard Armitage) "I spoke to you about my feelings because I love you; I had no thought for your reputation."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "You think that because you are rich, and my father is in -- reduced circumstances, that you can have me for your possession. I suppose I should expect no less from someone in trade."
• (Richard Armitage) "I don't want to possess you. I wish to marry you because I love you."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "You shouldn't. Because I do not like you, and never have."
• (Richard Armitage) "One minute we talk of the colour of fruit, the next of love. How does that happen?"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "My friend, Bessy Higgins, is dying."
• (Richard Armitage) "And that of course, is my fault too."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "I'm sorry."
• (Richard Armitage) "For what? That you find my feelings for you offensive? Or that you assume because I'm in trade I'm only capable of thinking in terms of buying and selling? Or that I take pleasure in sending my employees to an early grave?"
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "No. No, no, of course not. I'm -- I'm sorry -- to be so blunt. I've not learnt how to -- how to refuse -- how to respond when a -- when a man talks to me as you just have."
• (Richard Armitage) "Oh, there are others? This happens to you every day? Of course. You must have to disappoint so many men that offer you their heart."
• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "Please, understand, Mr. Thornton --"
• (Richard Armitage) "I do understand. I understand you completely."

• (Richard Armitage) "Was -- was it Miss Hale who told you to come to me? You might have said."
• (Brendan Coyle) "And you've have been a little more civil?"

Brendan Coyle as Nicholas Higgins

• (Brendan Coyle) "Reckon I'll leave my brains at home, then."

• (Brendan Coyle) "My poor Bess. She lived the life of a dog. Hard work and illness. She never had one moment of rejoicing. I'm not saying I don't believe in your God, but I can't believe He meant the world to be as it is. The masters ruling over us, the rest of us left to live a half-life in the shadows."

Sinéad Cusack as Hannah Thornton

• (Sinéad Cusack) "A mother's love holds fast and forever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke; it changes with every wind."

Daniela Denby-Ashe as Margaret Hale

• (Daniela Denby-Ashe) "I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white."

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