Jane Eyre (mini)

(21 votes)   Cassandra Austen: [regarding 'First Impressions', which will later become 'Pride and Prejudice'] How does the story begin?
Jane Austen: Badly.
Cassandra Austen: And then?
Jane Austen: It gets worse.


Becoming Jane 2007

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(20 votes)   Michael: Nothing much makes me cry anymore. I used to, lots, but not anymore.
J.M. Barrie: I bet I can make you cry.
Michael: I bet you can't.
J.M. Barrie: Ten francs?
Michael: Done. Am I for a story?
J.M. Barrie: No, just a thought.
Michael: About me?
J.M. Barrie: About your father.
Michael: You can't make me cry about him. I thought I would, but I didn't at all, except for a little bit. But Mother still cries, doesn't she? Do you love her?
J.M. Barrie: Of course I love her.
Michael: More than Mrs. Barrie?
J.M. Barrie: You shouldn't ask questions like that.


The Lost Boys (mini) 1978

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(17 votes)   Arthur Dent: What is your name by the way?
Slartibartfast: My name... my name is Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: I beg your pardon?
Slartibartfast: Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: [trying not to laugh] Slartibartfast?
Slartibartfast: I said it wasn't important.


The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (mini) 1981

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(16 votes)   [At the party at Lucas Lodge, Sir Lucas endeavors to make conversation with Mr. Bingley's two sisters]
Sir William Lucas: No doubt you attend assemblies at St. James's Court, Miss Bingley?
Miss Bingley: We go but rarely, sir.
Sir William Lucas: Indeed, I am surprised. I should be happy to introduce you there, you know, at any time when I'm in town.
[Mrs. Hurst looks in suppressed shock and mirth at her sister]
Miss Bingley: You are too kind, sir.
[She curtsies, and the two sisters move away]
Sir William Lucas: [feeling awkward, but not quite sure why] Well, well, good, good! Capital, capital!
Miss Bingley: Insufferable conceit! To imagine that we'd need *his* assistance in society.
Mrs. Hurst: I am sure he is a very good kind of man, Caroline.
Miss Bingley: And I am sure he kept a very good kind of *shop* before his elevation to the Knighthood.
[They both giggle maliciously]


Pride and Prejudice (mini) 1980

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(15 votes)   Duncan Idaho: Even your empire must spend its time, then die.


Children of Dune (mini) 2003

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(13 votes)   Mr. Wisley: Sometimes affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom.


Becoming Jane 2007

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(13 votes)   Mrs. Radcliffe: Of what do you wish to write?
Jane Austen: Of the heart.
Mrs. Radcliffe: Do you know it?
Jane Austen: Not all of it.


Becoming Jane 2007

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(13 votes)   Robert Oppenheimer: It is too early to determine what the results of the bombing might have been, but I'm sure the Japanese didn't like it.


Nuclear Secrets (mini) 2007

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(12 votes)   Diomed: [to a slave] Remind me to sell you in the morning.


The Last Days of Pompeii (mini) 1984

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(12 votes)   Jack McCallister: Did I get it?
Jack's Assistant: [Shoots his gun] Now you did.


Fun with Dick and Jane 1977

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(11 votes)   Christine Forster: Rowley was my moral tutor at Durham University. In this capacity, he introduced me to socialism... then to his bed... then married me, much to the disgust of his grand family. And he quarreled with me. Finally he left me. Nothing stuck except the socialism. See? No scars.


To Serve Them All My Days (mini) 1980

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(11 votes)   Col. Sink: Kids, I just had a conversation with General LeClerc. He told me he was first into Paris, and by God, he wanted to be first into Berchtesgaden. I told him I understood his point. Now you fire up Second Battalion and out flank that French son of a *****!


Band of Brothers (mini) 2001

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(11 votes)   Cpl. Donald Hoobler: Down he goes, right out of his saddle like a sack of potatoes. Outstanding accuracy on my part if I do say so myself.
Lipton: But you do.
Cpl. Donald Hoobler: Which I do. Hell, Shifty, I think maybe I could've even given you a run for your money.
SSgt. Darrel 'Shifty' Powers: No, No, I'm not a good shot. Now Dad, he was an excellent shot - excellent, I declare. He could shoot the wings off a fly.


Band of Brothers (mini) 2001

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(11 votes)   Mrs. Austen: JANE!
Lady Gresham: What is she doing?
Mr. Wisley: Writing.
Lady Gresham: Can anything be done about it?


Becoming Jane 2007

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(11 votes)   Woodrow Call: You ever get tired o' loafin' I reckon you can get a job waitin' on tables.
Gus McCrae: Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up.
Newt: How come?
Gus McCrae: Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't let me alone.


Lonesome Dove (mini) 1989

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