Emma Thompson credited as playing...
Margaret Schlegel
- Margaret Schlegel: Will you forgive her as you yourself have been forgiven... you have had a mistress; I forgave you. My sister has a lover, you drive her from the house. Why can you not be honest for once in your life? Why can't you say what Helen has done, I have done!
- Margaret Schlegel: Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies.
- Margaret Schlegel: I deny it's madness.
- Henry Wilcox: But you said yourself...
- Margaret Schlegel: It's madness when I say it, but not when you say it.
- [last lines]
- Margaret Schlegel: What did Dolly mean about Howards End?
- Henry Wilcox: Mmmm? My poor Ruth, during her last days, scribbled your name on a piece of paper. Knowing her not to be herself, I set it aside. Didn't do wrong, did I?
- Tibby Schlegel: We all know to what *extremes* Helen goes. We've all suffered under her temperament.
- Margaret Schlegel: But, this is different. This is not temperament, but a kind of madness - as if she were mad.
- Margaret Schlegel: Henry, look at me. You were that woman's lover?
- Henry Wilcox: Since you put it with your usual delicacy, yes I was.
- Margaret Schlegel: When?
- [no answer]
- Margaret Schlegel: When, please?
- Henry Wilcox: [angry] Ten years ago!
- [calmer]
- Henry Wilcox: I'm sorry. Ten years ago.
- Margaret Schlegel: Henry, dear... it's not going to trouble us.
- [first lines]
- Margaret Schlegel: [reading letter] Dearest Meg, I'm having a glorious time. I like them all. They are the very happiest, jolliest family that you can imagine. The fun of it is that they think me a noodle, and say so - at least, Mr. Wilcox does. Oh Meg, should we ever learn to talk less.
- [laughing]
- Ruth Wilcox: We never discuss at Howard's End, except, perhaps, sport.
- Margaret Schlegel: But you should. Discussion keeps a house alive.
- Ruth Wilcox: You will laugh at my old-fashioned ideas.
- Margaret Schlegel: I will not.
- Ruth Wilcox: I sometimes think - it would be wiser to leave action and discussion to men.
- Margaret Schlegel: But, then where would we be with the suffrage?
- Ruth Wilcox: I am only too thankful not to have the vote myself.
- Margaret Schlegel: Shall we go up for coffee?
- Aunt Juley: Oh, dear. Obviously, someone must go down to this Howard's house to make inquiries.
- Margaret Schlegel: Howard's End.
- Aunt Juley: Margaret, inquiries are necessary. What do we know about these Wilcoxes? Are they our sort? Are they likely people?
- Margaret Schlegel: But Aunt Juley, what does it matter? Helen's in love! That's all I need to know.
- Margaret Schlegel: It's no use beating about the bush, what happened in the summer was - unfortunate.
- Margaret Schlegel: They belong to types that can fall in love but can't live together. I'm afraid that in 9 cases out of 10, nature pulls one way and human nature the other. I do rattle on. I'm afraid I shall tire you out in no time.
- Margaret Schlegel: Why didn't you make that young man welcome, Tibby? You must do the host a little, you know. You could've coaxed him into stopping, instead of letting him be swamped by screaming women.
- Ruth Wilcox: You're so clever, and yet so good.
- Margaret Schlegel: No. It's very kind of you, but I'm neither, I'm afraid.
- Ruth Wilcox: You've been very good to me. You've kept me from brooding. I'm too apt to brood.
- Margaret Schlegel: About what?
- Ruth Wilcox: I really don't know. I think about my house a great deal. You've never seen Howard's End. I want to show it to you.
- Margaret Schlegel: Now, this is the scientific approach to Christmas shopping: A list.
- Ruth Wilcox: A list? What a good idea.
- Ruth Wilcox: There's a chestnut tree at Howard's End - that has pig's teeth stuck into the trunk about four feet from the ground. Yes, the teeth of a pig. The country people put them there *long* ago and they think that if they chew a piece of the bark - it will cure the toothache.
- Margaret Schlegel: I love folklore, the old superstitions. Isn't it curious, though, that unlike Greece, England has no true mythology? All we have are witches and fairies.
- Ruth Wilcox: Will you come with me to Howards End?