Corin Redgrave credited as playing...
Sir Walter Elliot
- Captain Wentworth: I come on business, Sir Walter.
- Sir Walter Elliot: Business?
- Captain Wentworth: Yes, my proposal of marriage to your daughter Anne has been accepted and I respectfully, sir, request permission to set a date.
- Sir Walter Elliot: Anne? You want to marry Anne? Whatever for?
- Sir Walter Elliot: Who is this Admiral Croft?
- Mr. Shepherd: I met with him at the quarter sessions in Taunton. He's a native of Somersetshire who acquired a fortune in the war and wishes to return here.
- Sir Walter Elliot: Yes, but who is he?
- Anne Elliot: He is rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action and has been in the East Indies since. He has been stationed there, I believe, several years.
- Sir Walter Elliot: Then I take it his face has both the color and texture of this macaroon.
- Sir Walter Elliot: I will not have a sailor in my house. I strongly object to the Navy. It brings persons of obscure birth into undue distinction. And it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly.
- Sir Walter Elliot: You may observe that one handsome face will be followed by 30 or 5-and-30 frights. Once when I was standing in a shop in Bond Street, I counted 87 women go by, one after the other, without there being a tolerable face among them. But then, it was a frosty morning, which scarcely one woman in a thousand can stand the test of. And as for the men, they are infinitely worse. The streets are full of scarecrows!
- Sir Walter Elliot: I was in company with a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking person you can imagine. His face like mahogany, all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs and only a dab of powder on top.
- James Benwick: What's the news, Sir Walter?
- Sir Walter Elliot: A concert in the Assembly Room. To be given in Italian.
- James Benwick: [skeptical] Hmm.
- Sir Walter Elliot: A display of fireworks. But here is news indeed. Most vital news!
- Elizabeth Elliot: Father?
- Sir Walter Elliot: The Dowager Lady Dalrymple and the Honorable Miss Carteret are arrived in Laura place.
- Elizabeth Elliot: Our cousins.
- Sir Walter Elliot: Will they receive us?
- Elizabeth Elliot: They would not snub us, surely?
- Sir Walter Elliot: Please, God, let them not snub us!
- Sir Walter Elliot: Your looks are greatly improved, Anne. You're less thin in your person, and your cheeks and complexion is fresher. What are you using? Gowland's Lotion?
- Anne Elliot: No. Nothing.
- Sir Walter Elliot: I recommend the constant use of Gowland's during Spring months. Mrs Clay is using it and you see what it's done for her! Quite - carried away her freckles.