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Persuasion (1995 film) Quotes

Persuasion (1995 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Persuasion ended its run in 1970.

It features Fiona Finlay (producer) as producer, Jeremy Sams in charge of musical score, and John Daly as head of cinematography.

Persuasion (1995 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Persuasion (1995 film) is 104 minutes long. Persuasion (1995 film) is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

The cast includes: David Collings as Mr. Shepherd, Amanda Root as Anne Elliot, Samuel West as Mr. Elliot, Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell, Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot, Samuel West as Mr Elliot, Amanda Root as Anne, Robert Glenister as Captain Harvile, Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove, John Woodvine as Admiral Croft, Fiona Shaw as Mrs Croft, Sophie Thompson as Mary Musgrove, Simon Russell Beale as Charles Musgrove, and Phoebe Nicholls as Elizabeth Elliot.

Persuasion (1995 film) Quotes

Sophie Thompson as Mary Musgrove

  • (Sophie Thompson) "Are you coming in, Henrietta, or is my cottage insufficiently grand for you?"
  • (Sophie Thompson) "Anne, why could you not have come sooner?"
  • (Amanda Root) "My dear Mary, I really have had so much to do."
  • (Sophie Thompson) "Do? What can you possibly have had to do?"
  • (Amanda Root) "A great many things I assure you."
  • (Sophie Thompson) "Well. Dear me."
  • (Sophie Thompson) "It is so uncomfortable not having a carriage of one's own."

Amanda Root as Anne Elliot

  • (Amanda Root) "But their minds are so dissimilar."
  • (Amanda Root) "If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone."
  • (Amanda Root) "Are you here for the concert?"
  • (Unnamed) "No, I am here for a lecture on navigation. Am I in the wrong place?"
  • (Amanda Root) "Oh, why is the whole town suffering from this dreadful misapprehension that I shall marry him."
  • (Amanda Root) "But I so dislike Bath."
  • (Susan Fleetwood) "Only because you associate it with the passing of your dear mother."

John Woodvine as Admiral Croft

  • (John Woodvine) "What do you say, Sophie, is Frederick ready to fall in love?"
  • (Fiona Shaw) "I think he's ready to make a very foolish match, George."

Samuel West as Mr Elliot

  • (Samuel West) "Have you thought any more about my offer?"
  • (Amanda Root) "What offer was that?"
  • (Samuel West) "My offer to flatter and adore you all the days of your life."
  • (Amanda Root) "I haven't had a moment, Mr Elliot, to turn my mind to it."

Simon Russell Beale as Charles Musgrove

  • (Unnamed) "Do the women often come shooting Charles?"
  • (Simon Russell Beale) "Not that often Frederick, no."

Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell

  • (Susan Fleetwood) "He had no fortune, no connections. It was entirely prudent of you to reject him."
  • (Susan Fleetwood) "Captain Wentworth"
  • (Unnamed) "Lady Russell"
  • (Susan Fleetwood) "You, have an extraordinary ability to discompose my friend, sir."
  • (Unnamed) "And you have an extraordinary ability to influence her, ma'am, for which I find it hard to forgive you."

David Collings as Mr. Shepherd

  • (David Collings) "Women without children are the very best preservers of furniture."

Phoebe Nicholls as Elizabeth Elliot

  • (Phoebe Nicholls) "When Captain Wentworth arrives you must not monopolise him. That's a very bad habit of yours."

Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove

  • (Victoria Hamilton) "Louisa is grown so severe, Mama, I wonder she shall want a ribbon in her hair at all. Give her a book of verse to hold instead."

Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot

  • (Unnamed) "I come on business, Sir Walter."
  • (Corin Redgrave) "Business?"
  • (Unnamed) "Yes, my proposal of marriage to your daughter, Anne, has been accepted and I respectfully, sir, request permission to set a date."
  • (Corin Redgrave) "Anne? You want to marry Anne? Whatever for?"

Robert Glenister as Captain Harvile

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