Our Mutual Friend (1998)

Paul McGann: Eugene Wrayburn

Quotes 

• Lizzie Hexam : Will you walk beside me, Mr. Wrayburn, and not touch me.

  Eugene Wrayburn : I'll TRY.

• Mortimer Lightwood : I'm horribly awake. Eugene I can't lose sight of that fellow's face.

  Eugene Wrayburn : I can.

• Eugene Wrayburn : But, by God, give me something to be energetic about-- I'll show him energy! He's an amusing fellow, my father. I should like to please him, if I could.

• Eugene Wrayburn : Was this worthwhile, schoolmaster? All this trouble for nothing.

  Bradley Headstone : I don't know why you address me.

  Eugene Wrayburn : Don't you? Then I won't.

• Bradley Headstone : You think no more of me than the dirt under your feet.

  Eugene Wrayburn : I assure you, Schoolmaster, I don't think about you.

• Bradley Headstone : Sir, my name is Bradley Headstone.

  Eugene Wrayburn : Your name does not concern me.

• Eugene Wrayburn : My dear Mortimer, you are the express picture of contented industry. Reposing after the virtues of the day.

  Mortimer Lightwood : And you, my dear Eugene, are the express picture of discontented idleness.

• Mortimer Lightwood : Are you sure? ... Eugene, do you have some debt I don't know about?

  Eugene Wrayburn : Observe the legal mind! Respected solicitor, it's not that. The schoolmaster's abroad.

• Mortimer Lightwood : But he still lives, and he did you dreadful injury, and I cannot help but feel he should be punished.

  Eugene Wrayburn : No, Mortimer. He does not live. And he did me a favor.

  Mortimer Lightwood : A favor!

  Eugene Wrayburn : Yes. Oh yes, consider this. Had he not attacked me, I don't know what I would have done. How I would have injured her in my reckless passion. Mortimer, listen. Listen. I would have lost her respect, any possibility of our love would have gone forever, consider that. And consider what I have, now. And then tell me whether the schoolmaster lives, if not as some ghost between here and hell, knowing as he does that he brought us together... You think he does not have punishment enough?

• Mortimer Lightwood : Are you sure?... Eugene, do you have some debt I don't know about?

  Eugene Wrayburn : Observe the legal mind! Respected solicitor, it's not that. The schoolmaster's abroad.

• Eugene Wrayburn : [after bribing a drunk to find Lizzie]  I said that I would find her by any means, fair or foul, these are foul, I will take them.