Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Elizabeth Spriggs: Mrs. Jennings

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Quotes 

• Mrs Jennings : There you are, Pigeon. Have you missed me?

  Pigeon : Very much, ma'am.

  Mrs Jennings : Ah, you always say so and I never believe you.

• Mrs Jennings : [hoping to cheer up Marianne who is grieving her loss of Willoughby]  Does she care for olives?

• Mrs Jennings : Lovers' quarrels are swift to heal.

• Mrs Jennings : I declare, they are the loveliest girls I ever set eyes on. Can you not get them married, Mrs. Dashwood?

• Mrs Jennings : I think I've unearthed a secret.

  Sir John Middleton : Oh, no, have you sniffled one out already, Mother? You're worse than my best pointer Flossie!

• Mrs Jennings : I will brook no refusal, Miss Dashwood. Let us strike hands on the bargain. And if I do not have the three of you married by michaelmas, it will not be my fault.

• Mrs Jennings : An entertainment, I declare. I cannot remember when's the last we had a songbird in the house.

• Mrs Jennings : I don't want to hear another word about the ham bone, Pigeon. You and Cartwright must sort that out between you.

• Mrs Jennings : Ah, now, do not fret, my dear. I have been told that this good weather is keeping many of our sportsmen in the country at present, but the frost will soon drive them to town. Depend on it.

• Mrs Jennings : [to Pigeon]  Don't talk to me of coals.

  Mrs Jennings : [to the parrot]  Ah, there you are Pooter. Still alive I see.

• Mrs Jennings : What sort of man is he, Miss Dashwood? Is he butcher, baker, candlestick maker? I shall winkle it out of you somehow, you know!

  Sir John Middleton : She's horribly good at winkling.

• Mrs Jennings : You are in lonely country now, Miss Dashwood. None of us has any secrets here.