Lady Cumnor: Weally Hawwiet, I cannot understand why you take such an intewest in these petty Hollingford affairs.
Lady Harriet Cumnor: Oh mama, it's only tit for tat. They take the keenest interest in ours.
~Wives and Daughters (1999)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Quote of the Week 15
Lady Cumnor: Weally Hawwiet, I cannot understand why you take such an intewest in these petty Hollingford affairs.
Lady Harriet Cumnor: Oh mama, it's only tit for tat. They take the keenest interest in ours.
~Wives and Daughters (1999)
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Every time Lady Cumnor speaks I laugh. Her voice is hilarious:) Lady Harriet is one of my favorite characters.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
I love love LOVE that movie!!!!! One of my very favorites!! And the quotes!! AHHH! Nice! I like that one especially!! =)
ReplyDeleteLauren,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the actress who plays Lady Cumnor (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) also played Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice (1995)?
Julia,
I love it too... I need to see it again!!!
I love Lady Cumnor. It's funny to see "Lady Catherine" so different. I also have a fondness for Lady Hawwiet. I was ready to dislike her very much the first time she appeared in the movie, because of something she said to Molly. However she is truly a good person. :)
ReplyDeleteStephanie,
ReplyDelete"She knows her own mind, Clare. I think you will have your work cut out for you!"
I disliked her at first, too, but then I liked her later on. Lord Cumnor absolutely cracks me up, too. "What's twice eighteen? Thirty?"
Awww. I love Lady Harriet and Lady Cumnor--I think Harriet is beautiful..except when she cuts her hair at the end. I mean, what's *up* with that? And then I saw her as Jane Bennet in the 2005 P&P and knew she was just as beautiful as a Jane ought to be. (Susannah Harker wasn't that lovely in my opinion.)
ReplyDeleteYes I did! I think it's hilarious to see her in such a different role.
ReplyDeleteRachel,
ReplyDeleteI agree, her hair was SO weird! My sister Anne says it looks like she backed into a lawn mower. :)
I agree, Rosamund Pike made a much prettier Jane than Susannah Harker did... though I somehow still prefer Miss Harker's grace and sweetness in the role, even if she wasn't as pretty as Lizzy.
Lauren,
I know, I love seeing different actors in different dramas as totally different characters!
Hi Miss Dashwood!
ReplyDeleteActually, it's funny that you'd ask, because I am (hopefully) going to meet the Mallys at a homeschool convention this year in South Carolina. They'll be speaking there and I'll be running a booth for my jewelry and jewelry how-to books that I wrote. :) So I hope our paths cross. :D
But I heard about them through Sarah's book, Before You Meet Prince Charming. :) That book really helped me out as a young teen, and I still enjoy it now that I'm 20. :)
I would love to see the movie in this post, by the way! I've not seen it yet but loved Rosamund Pike in the new P&P. :)
Blessings,
Julia
Hi Julia!
ReplyDeleteHomeschool conventions are such fun! I hope you sell a lot of jewelry.
I love Before You Meet Prince Charming. I think I might write a review of it for my blog, even if it doesn't quite fit the theme. But I'm feeling the need to branch out a bit into other topics anyway.
Oh! You should definitely see "Wives and Daughters", it's a lovely film.
LOVE Lady Cumnor!!! "Don't dispawage yourself" is one of our favorite quotes around here. :-)
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