Death on the Nile (1978)

Maggie Smith: Miss Bowers

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• Jacqueline De Bellefort : [of Doyle]  I was mad last night. I might have killed him. Do you think he'll ever forgive me?

  Miss Bowers : It's more than likely. It's been my experience that men are least attracted to women who treat them well.

• Mrs. Van Schuyler : Shut up, Bowers. Just because you've got a grudge against her, or rather her father, no need to be uncivil.

  Miss Bowers : *Grudge*? Melhuish Ridgeway ruined my family!

  Mrs. Van Schuyler : Well, you should be grateful. If he hadn't, you would have missed out on the pleasure of working for me.

  Miss Bowers : I could kill her on that score alone!

• Mrs. Van Schuyler : Come on, Bowers, time to go. This place is beginning to resemble a mortuary.

  Miss Bowers : Thank God you'll be in one yourself before too long, you bloody old fossil!

• Mrs. Van Schuyler : How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?

  Miss Bowers : There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.

  Mrs. Van Schuyler : Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.

• Miss Bowers : I think a shot of morphia will meet the case. I've always found it very effective when Mrs Van Schuyler is carrying on.

• Miss Bowers : Poppycock. From whom did you hear that?

  Hercule Poirot : From your own lips, Mademoiselle, three days ago.

  Miss Bowers : How dare you listen to a private conversation!

  Hercule Poirot : Some voices carry.

• Mrs. Van Schuyler : Keep a civil tongue in your head, Bowers, or you'll be out of a job.

  Miss Bowers : What do I care? This town is filled with rich old widows willing to pay for a little groveling and a body massage. You go ahead and fire me.

• Miss Bowers : Sorry, Miss Ridgeway.

  Linnet Ridgeway : Mrs. Doyle, Mrs. Simon Doyle.

• Miss Bowers : Ferguson, you'd better go and get that - that "hun" doctor from next door.

• Col. Johnny Race : After you gave Miss Jacqueline the morphia, she never stirred all night.

  Miss Bowers : Exactly. Nervous reaction, booze, and morphia - together they'd have sunk the Titanic.