Toni Collette credited as playing...
Harriet Smith
- [Talking about Mrs. Elton]
- Emma Woodhouse: She'd never seen him before, and she called him Knightley!
- Harriet Smith: I saw her at church. She seemed...
- Emma Woodhouse: Vulgar? Base? Conceited? Crass? She actually seemed pleased to discover that Mr. Knightley was a gentleman. I doubt he'll return the compliment and find *her* a lady. She proposed that we form a *musical club*. Is it possible that Mr. Elton met her while doing charitable work in a mental infirmary?
- [sighs]
- Emma Woodhouse: There is only one thing to do with a person as impossible as she.
- Harriet Smith: What?
- Emma Woodhouse: I must throw a party for her. Otherwise everyone will feel at once how much I dislike her.
- Emma Woodhouse: Mr. Elton just dropped this off at my house. He claims it is a riddle for your collection, but I think it is something much better.
- [hands the paper to Harriet]
- Harriet Smith: [after reading the riddle] Is it about sharks?
- Emma Woodhouse: Good heavens, why would he write a riddle about sharks?
- Emma Woodhouse: [reading Mr. Elton's riddle out loud] "... Behold him there, the monarch of the seas" Which is?
- Harriet Smith: A mermaid! A trident? Oh, do you think we shall ever know?
- Emma Woodhouse: What's to be done?
- [On learning that Harriet has fallen for Mr Knightley]
- Harriet Smith: Must something be done about it?
- Harriet Smith: I think this disappoints you.
- Emma Woodhouse: Harriet, it is a perfect end to my sad career as a matchmaker.
- Emma Woodhouse: Tell me more about Mr. Martin. Is he a man of information?
- Harriet Smith: Oh, yes! He reads the agricultural reports. And I recommended he read "The Romance of the Forest," and he said he would.
- Harriet Smith: How lucky to have been twice blessed in marriage. It has been my belief that one loves only once. I'm happy to be wrong.
- Harriet Smith: Can you not tell me what it was?
- Emma Woodhouse: Oh! It is not my place to intrude in personal matters.
- [after a long pause with no response from Harriet]
- Emma Woodhouse: But, as your friend, I could make an exception, if you wish.
- Harriet Smith: I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you're not married.
- Emma Woodhouse: I have no inducements to marry. I lack neither fortune nor position and never could I be so important in a man's eyes as I am in my father's.
- Harriet Smith: But to be an old maid like Miss Bates.
- Emma Woodhouse: She is a poor old maid and it is only poverty which makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.
- Harriet Smith: I am sorry I was not more help. I'm always afraid I will somehow make a sick person worse.
- Emma Woodhouse: It's not my place to intrude!
- Harriet Smith: I depend so on what you think.
- Emma Woodhouse: I would not advise you for the world! If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person you know, or may ever know, if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been or ever will be in company with, then why should you hesitate?
- Harriet Smith: You told me to let his behavior be the rule of mine and so I have. Am I wrong to hope as I do?