Cranford (TV Series)

August 1842 (2007)

Julia McKenzie: Mrs Forrester

Quotes 

• [Mrs. Forester's cow has fallen into a lime pit and is struggling in vain to get itself out] 

  Mary Smith : I think the odour is the burning of the poor thing's hair - the lime has singed it off.

  Mrs. Forester : [shrieks]  What care I if she's bald?

  Miss Deborah Jenkyns : She will not be bald if she cannot be recovered - she will be naked!

  Captain Brown : It pains me to say it, Mrs. Forester, but the poor bad beast will have to be destroyed - unless you're prepared to dress it in pyjamas!

• Mrs. Forrester : It's all such a sequence of continuous delights.

• Miss Pole : [running to the other ladies]  Put no further pastries to your lips for you will choke when you hear the news I must report. This is more preposterous and shocking than when Wormald's lions came and the little child's arm was bit clean off.

  [catches breath] 

  Mrs. Forrester : [interrupts]  The railway is to come to Cranford!

  Miss Pole : [annoyed, to Mrs Forrester]  I rehearsed those words all the way from the worsted work.

• [Bessie, Mrs. Forrester's cow, has fallen into a lime pit] 

  Mary Smith : I think the odor is the burning of the poor thing's hair. The lime has singed it off.

  Mrs. Forrester : What care I if she lives on bald?

  Miss Deborah Jenkyns : She will not be bald if she cannot recover - she will be naked!

  Captain Brown : It pains me to say so, Mrs. Forrester, but the poor bare beast will have to be destroyed.

  Mrs. Forrester : [Wails] 

  Captain Brown : [Shrugging]  ... Unless you are prepared to dress it in pajamas.