Screen Two (TV Series)

Persuasion (1995)

Susan Fleetwood: Lady Russell

Quotes 

• Lady Russell : Captain Wentworth

  Captain Wentworth : Lady Russell

  Lady Russell : You, have an extraordinary ability to discompose my friend, sir.

  Captain Wentworth : And you have an extraordinary ability to influence her, ma'am, for which I find it hard to forgive you.

• Lady Russell : He had no fortune, no connections. It was entirely prudent of you to reject him.

• Anne Elliot : Lady Russell, I have never said this...

  Lady Russell : Do not talk of it. You shall not talk of it.

  Anne Elliot : I do not blame you. Nor do I blame myself for having been guided by you. But, I am now persuaded that in spite of the disapproval at home and the anxiety attending his prospects that I - I should have been happier, had I...

  Lady Russell : You were nineteen, Anne. Nineteen - to involve yourself with a man who had nothing but himself to recommend him. The spirit of brilliance, to be sure, but no fortune, no connections. It was entirely prudent of you to reject him.

• Lady Russell : Here are the new poems I was telling you of. Altogether, I care little for these romantics, do you?

• Anne Elliot : But I so dislike Bath.

  Lady Russell : Only because you associate it with the passing of your dear mother.

• Anne Elliot : He holds my father, he says, in high esteem.

  Lady Russell : That's perfectly natural that now he is older. Mr Elliot should begin to appreciate the value of blood connection.

• Lady Russell : This is all most agreeable. The heir presumptive reformed and on good terms with the head of his family. Most agreeable.

• Lady Russell : Instinct! It's no time for instinct. Look at the facts.