Screen Two (TV Series)

Persuasion (1995)

Corin Redgrave: Sir Walter Elliot

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Quotes 

• Captain Wentworth : I come on business, Sir Walter.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Business?

  Captain Wentworth : Yes, my proposal of marriage to your daughter, Anne, has been accepted and I respectfully, sir, request permission to set a date.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Anne? You want to marry Anne? Whatever for?

• Sir Walter Elliot : Who is this - Admiral Croft?

  Mr. Shepherd : I met with him at the quarter sessions in Taunton. He's a native of Somersetshire who acquired a fortune in the war and wishes to return here.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Yes, but who is he?

  Anne Elliot : He is rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action and has been in the East Indies since. He has been stationed there, I believe, several years.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Then, I take it, his face has both the color and texture of this macaroon.

• Sir Walter Elliot : I was in company with a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking person you can imagine. His face like mahogany, all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs and only a dab of powder on top.

• Sir Walter Elliot : I strongly object to the Navy. It brings people of obscure birth into undue distinction and it cuts up a man's youth and vigor most horribly!

• Sir Walter Elliot : I will not have a sailor in my house. I strongly object to the Navy. It brings persons of obscure birth into undue distinction. And it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly.

• Sir Walter Elliot : You may observe that one handsome face will be followed by thirty or five-and-thirty frights. Once, when I was standing in a shop in Bond Street, I counted eighty-seven women go by, one after the other, without there being a tolerable face among them. But then, it was a frosty morning, which scarcely one woman in a thousand can stand the test of. And as for the men, they are infinitely worse. The streets are full of scarecrows!

• James Benwick : What's the news, Sir Walter?

  Sir Walter Elliot : A concert in the Assembly Room. To be given in Italian.

  James Benwick : [skeptical]  Hmm.

  Sir Walter Elliot : A display of fireworks. But here is news indeed. Most vital news!

  Elizabeth Elliot : Father?

  Sir Walter Elliot : The Dowager Lady Dalrymple and the Honorable Miss Carteret are arrived in Laura place.

  Elizabeth Elliot : Our cousins.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Will they receive us?

  Elizabeth Elliot : They would not snub us, surely?

  Sir Walter Elliot : Please, God, let them not snub us!

• Sir Walter Elliot : Your looks are greatly improved, Anne. You're less thin in your person, and your cheeks and complexion is fresher. What are you using? Gowland's Lotion?

  Anne Elliot : No. Nothing.

  Sir Walter Elliot : I recommend the constant use of Gowland's during Spring months. Mrs Clay is using it and you see what it's done for her! Quite - carried away her freckles.