Kate Beckinsale credited as playing...
Flora Poste
- Mrs. Smiling: I mean there probably isn't even a bathroom.
- Flora Poste: It is Sussex, for goodness' sake.
- Charles: Do you ever think of getting married?
- Flora Poste: I believe in arranged marriages, don't you?
- Charles: Rather out of date.
- Flora Poste: Not at all. I've always like the phrase, "A marriage has been arranged." When I feel like it, I'll arrange one.
- Flora Poste: Besides, I want to learn about *real* life.
- Charles: What for?
- Flora Poste: To put it in books.
- Flora Poste: It was winter. The grimmest hour of the darkest day of the year. The Golden Orb had almost disappeared behind the interlacing fingers of the hawthorn.
- Flora Poste: When I am 53, I hope to write a novel as good as "Persuasion," but in a modern setting.
- Charles: If you get bored, where ever you are, phone. I'll come and rescue you in my plane.
- Flora Poste: Have you a plane, Charles?
- Charles: Ummmm. A Belisha Bat called Speed Cop II.
- Flora Poste: Are you sure an embryo parson have a plane?
- Charles: Everyone should have a plane.
- Flora Poste: [laughing] Really, Charles!
- Mrs. Smiling: Of course you may stay here as long as you like. But I expect you should want to find some work to earn enough for a flat of your own.
- Flora Poste: Work! What kind of work?
- Mrs. Smiling: Oh, it's been ages since I've done any, but there must be something that would do... bookkeeping... beekeeping...
- Flora Poste: What a pleasant life might be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will.
- Flora Poste: I'm willing to bet there are also cousins called Seth and Reuben.
- Mrs. Smiling: Why?
- Flora Poste: Highly sexed young men living on a farm are always called Seth or Reuben.
- Flora Poste: Then, you have no idea what you're going to say before you get there?
- Amos Starkadder: Aye. I always know it'll be something about burnin'.
- Reuben Starkadder: I don't suppose you'd marry me?
- Flora Poste: Oh Reuben that is nice of you.
- Reuben Starkadder: Oh I mean it, Miss Poste. I like your pretty ways.
- Flora Poste: I like yours too.
- [on the day of Elfine's wedding, everybody is rushing to get ready]
- Reuben Starkadder: [out of breath, with his shirt askew] Cousin Flora, would you mind? I'm not used to them collars.
- Flora Poste: Of course, Reuben. Sit down over here.