Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Hugh Grant: Edward Ferrars

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• Edward Ferrars : I-I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.

• Elinor Dashwood : You talk of feeling idle and useless. Imagine how that is compounded when one has no hope and no choice of any occupation whatsoever.

  Edward Ferrars : Our circumstances are therefore precisely the same.

  Elinor Dashwood : Except that you will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.

  Edward Ferrars : Perhaps Margaret is right.

  Elinor Dashwood : Right?

  Edward Ferrars : Piracy is our only option.

• Edward Ferrars : Your friendship has been the most important of my life.

  Elinor Dashwood : You will always have it.

• Elinor Dashwood : Margaret has always wanted to travel.

  Edward Ferrars : I know. She's, eh, heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I am to be very badly treated.

  Elinor Dashwood : What will your duties be?

  Edward Ferrars : Sword fighting, obviously, administering rum and swabbing.

  Elinor Dashwood : Which of those duties will take precedence?

  Edward Ferrars : Swabbing, I imagine.

• [Edward and Elinor are baiting Margaret, who is playfully hiding] 

  Edward Ferrars : I, eh, wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.

  Elinor Dashwood : Oh. No. No, um, she's quite wrong, um, for I believe it is in Belgium.

  Edward Ferrars : Belgium. Surely not, I think you must be thinking of the Volga.

  Margaret : [under the table]  The Volga?

  Elinor Dashwood : Of course, the Volga, which, as you know, starts in...

  Edward Ferrars : Vladivostock, and ends in...

  Elinor Dashwood : Wimbledon.

  Edward Ferrars : Precisely. Where the coffee beans come from.

  Margaret : [coming out]  Ugh! The source of the Nile is in Abyssinia.

• Mrs. Dashwood : My youngest is not to be found this morning. She's a little shy of strangers at present.

  Edward Ferrars : N-n-naturally. I'm sh-shy of strangers myself and I have nothing like her excuse.

• Edward Ferrars : All I want - all I have ever wanted - is the quiet of a private life, but, eh, my mother is determined to see me distinguished.

• Edward Ferrars : Miss Dashwood... Elinor, I must speak to you. There is something of great importance that I need to, eh... t-tell you... a-about my, eh, education.

  Elinor Dashwood : Your education?

  Edward Ferrars : Yes. It w-was conducted, eh, oddly enough, in Plymouth.

  Elinor Dashwood : Indeed?

  Edward Ferrars : Yes. Do you know it?

  Elinor Dashwood : Plymouth?

  Edward Ferrars : Yes.

  Elinor Dashwood : No.

  Edward Ferrars : Ah.

• Edward Ferrars : I trust I find you all well?

  Marianne : Thank you, Edward, we are all very well.

  Margaret : We've been enjoying very fine weather.

  [Marianne nudges her] 

  Margaret : Well, we have.

  Edward Ferrars : Well, I-I'm glad to hear it. The roads were very... dry.

• Fanny : They're all exceedingly spoilt, I find. Miss Margaret spends all her time up trees and under furniture. I've barely had a civil word from Marianne.

  Edward Ferrars : My dear Fanny, they've just lost their father. Their lives will never be the same again.

  Fanny : That is no excuse.

• Edward Ferrars : Colonel Brandon must be a man of great worth and respectability.

  Elinor Dashwood : Yes, he is the kindest and best of men.