Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)
Episode #2.3 (2013)
Sarah Lancashire: Caroline
Quotes
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Caroline : [after recently reading John's papers, which he's left lying around the house] Why don't you talk to me about Alison Waterhouse?
Celia : Who?
Caroline : A flaccid, overripe fruit of a woman.
John : I was experimenting with language, similes.
Caroline : It's a metaphor. It's a lazy metaphor. I mean, what sort of fruit are we talking about? A banana? A tangerine?
John : You know, people always think you've based characters on them and you haven't.
Caroline : And can we leave Alison's dusky negress right out of it? Or Matthew Waterhouse will be getting his withering, shriveling, starved-of-light, pink little bollocks chopped right off.
John : Right, fine.
Celia : Is that what he's put?
John : Adjustments will be made. Can I have it back?
Caroline : No, you can whistle.
John : Caroline!
Caroline : And what about Lizzie Cunningham, a latter-day Bathsheba Everdene, no less, who owns her own sheep farm and has more suitors than she knows what to do with? Who does that remind us of?
[reading]
Caroline : A sullen, sinewy 40-something woman with the purposeful frame and carriage of a sixteen-year-old boy. Ooh, la la, so...
[aside to Lawrence]
Caroline : Mummy isn't the only gay in the village.
[to John]
Caroline : I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ring Gillian.
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Lawrence : Why don't you and Miss McKenzie drive to school together?
Caroline : Because we don't always finish work at the same time. Please call her Kate.
Lawrence : Everyone knows, you know. You need to stop kidding yourself, because you just look like a hypocrite. Which is not a cool message to be sending out to the 2.7 percent of kids in this school who will one day turn out to be muff-munching shirt-lifters.
