Period Drama Week - Friday: Witty Quotes

That's one of the things we like about Period Dramas, isn't it? The great scripts and witty quotes that somehow creep into our daily lives? Of course it is! Here are some of the witty quotes that I find particularly witty.

Amazing Grace

"No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!" - William Wilberforce

"I am a great sinner and Christ is a great savior." - John Newton

Cranford

Doctor Harrison: Nothing like this is ever done in London

Deborah: You're not in London, Doctor Harrison... You're in Cranford now.

Deborah: I mean, what will people think of her? And worse... What will be said?

David Copperfield

"Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and I'll knock your bonnet off. --And tread upon it!" - Betsey Trotwood (Thanks, Melody from Regency Delight)

Downton Abbey

"We all have chapters that we would rather keep unpublished." - Robert Crawley

"So put that in your pipe and smoke it." - Lady Violet

Lark Rise to Candleford

"Right's right, and wrong ain't right." - Mr. Paxton, owner of the Wagon and Horses


"Young Alf, can I borrow your hat? I'm gonna do my trick for our squire, the one where I make my hat disappear, and it ain't anywhere to be found." - Twister Turrill

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Miss Bingley: I believe I can guess your thoughts at this moment.
Mr. Darcy: I should imagine not.
Miss Bingley: You are thinking how insupportable it would be to spend many evenings in such tedious company.
Mr. Darcy: No, indeed, my mind was more agreeably engaged. I've been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Miss Bingley: And may one dare ask whose the eyes that inspire these reflections?
Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth Bennet's.
Miss Bingley: Miss Elizabeth Bennet. I am all astonishment. 

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Elinor Dashwood: Margaret has always wanted to travel.
Edward Ferrars: I know. She's heading an expedition to China shortly. I'm to go as her servant. But only on the understanding that I am to be very badly treated.
Elinor Dashwood: What will your duties be?
Edward Ferrars: Sword fighting, obviously, administering rum and swabbing.
Elinor Dashwood: And which of these will take precedence?
Edward Ferrars: Swabbing, I imagine. 

Elinor Dashwood: I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him - that I greatly esteem him... I like him.
Marianne Dashwood: Esteem him? Like him? Use those insipid words again and I shall leave the room this instant. 



What did you think about the quotes? Are there any of your favorites that you didn't see? Suggest your favorite quotes in a comment. I'll include them for the conclusion of Period Drama Week! I didn't have as many quotes here as I would have liked, so keep the suggestions coming!

God Bless,
 

Period Drama Week - Wednesday: Where have I've seen them before? (Part 2: Actors)

Yesterday, you saw the actresses you may have seen in multiple period dramas. For today, Part 2 of the series "Where have I've seen them before?", the Actors

Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle was in North and South (2004) as Nicholas Higgins, Lark Rise to Candleford (2008 - 2010) as Robert Timmins, and Downton Abbey (2010 - ) as John Bates.

Colin Firth

Colin Firth was in Pride and Prejudice (1995) as Mr. Darcy, The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) as Jack Worthing, and The King's Speech (2010) as Prince Albert (Bertie)/King George IV (sorry, typo in there).

Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens was in Sense and Sensibility (2008) as Edward Ferrars and in Downton Abbey (2010 - ) as Matthew Crawley.

Greg Wise

Greg Wise was in Sense and Sensibility (1995) as John Willoughby, The Moonstone (1997) as Franklin Blake, and Cranford (2007) as Sir Charles Maulver. He is also married to Sense and Sensibility co-star Emma Thompson.

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville was in Daniel Deronda (2002) as Henleigh Grandcourt, Lost in Austen (2008) as Mr. Bennet, and Downton Abbey (2010 - ) as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.

Iain Glen

Iain Glen was in Adam Bede (1992) as Adam Bede, Wives and Daughters (1999) as Mr. Preston, and in the upcoming season of Downton Abbey as Sir Richard Carlisle. He was also married to Susanna Harker who played Jane Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice.

Jim Carter

Jim Carter was in The Way We Live Now (2002) as Mr. Brehgert, Cranford (2007 - 2009) as Captain Brown, and Downton Abbey (2010 - ) as Charles Carson.

Matthew Macfadyen

Matthew Macfayden was in The Way We Live Now (2002) as Sir Felix Carbury, Pride and Prejudice (2005) as Mr. Darcy, and Little Dorrit (2008) as Arthur Clennam.

Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon was in Wives and Daughters (1999) as Squire Hamley, Cranford (2007) as Thomas Holbrook, Emma (2009) as Mr. Woodhouse, and The King's Speech (2010) as King George V.

Robert Hardy

Robert Hardy was in Northanger Abbey (1986) as General Tilney (not pictured), Middlemarch (1994) as Arthur Brooke, Sense and Sensibility (1995) as Sir John Middleton, and Little Dorrit (2008) as Tite Barnacle.

That concludes the "Where have I've seen them before" posts!

God Bless,
 

Jane Austen Week - Wednesday: What did Jane Look Like?

No one knows for sure what Jane Austen looked like. The only two pictures that we certainly have of her were painted by her sister, Cassandra.

This is the unfinished portrait that Cassandra drew of Jane; family claimed that it looked unlike her.

There are also other portraits that are thought to be Jane Austen, but there is still some controversy to them.

The Rice Portrait by Ozias Humphry. Some believe that it is Jane Austen, however, there are also some that say that the portrait depicts a young girl wearing fashions from 1805 when Jane Austen was thirty.

"Clarke watercolor" painting that is thought to be Jane Austen

Two Silhouettes that may be Jane Austen

Some have tried to come up with modern portraits of Jane Austen. Though probably not like her, they are very nice!

For more information, take a look at this article at The Jane Austen Center.


What do you think? Which pictures are your favorites? Which ones do you think could be Jane Austen? Do you think the modern pictures give a closer look to what she may have looked like?




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