Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Myriam Emilie Francois: Margaret Dashwood

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• [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.

• Margaret : Have you really been to the East Indies, Colonel?

  Colonel Brandon : I have.

  Margaret : What's it like?

  Sir John Middleton : Like? Hot.

  Colonel Brandon : [mysteriously]  The air is full of spices.

• Marianne : I'm taking you for a walk.

  Margaret : No, I've been a walk.

  Marianne : You need another.

  Margaret : It's going to rain.

  Marianne : It is NOT going to rain.

  Margaret : You ALWAYS say that and then it ALWAYS does.

• Marianne : And as for you, you have no right, no right at all, to parade your ignorant assumptions...

  Margaret : They're not assumptions, you told me.

  Marianne : I told you nothing.

  Margaret : They'll meet him when he comes, anyway.

  Marianne : Margaret, that is not the point. You do not speak of such things before strangers.

  Margaret : But everyone else was.

  Marianne : Mrs Jennings is not everyone.

  Margaret : I like her. She talks about things. We never talk about things.

  Mrs. Dashwood : Hush, please. That is enough, Margaret. If you cannot think of anything appropriate to say, you will please restrict your remarks to the weather.

• Marianne : Is there any felicity in the world superior to this?

  Margaret : I told you it would rain.

  Marianne : There's some blue sky! Let us chase it!

• Margaret : Oh, please don't say anything important.

• Margaret : He must like you very much.

  Marianne : It is not just for me. It is for all of us.

• Margaret : [in church]  Do you think he'll kneel down when he asks her?

  Elinor Dashwood : Shh!

  Margaret : [from the pulpit]  The fear of Him is the beginning of wisdom.

  Margaret : They always kneel down.

• 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.

• Margaret : Edward promised he'd bring the atlas to Barton for me?

  Marianne : Did he? Well, I'll wager he will do so in less than a fortnight.

• [a large box has arrived at Barton cottage] 

  Margaret : It's for us!

  Mrs. Dashwood : What is it, Thomas?

  Thomas : I'm not sure, ma'am, but it's right heavy.