Rachel Weisz credited as playing...
Tessa Quayle
- Tessa Quayle: I thought you spies knew everything.
- Tim Donohue: Only God knows everything. He works for Mossad.
- Justin Quayle: [Tessa tells Justin to slow down, wanting to drive a woman, her baby, and her brother who are walking 40 kilometers back to his home] We can't involve ourselves in their lives, Tessa.
- Tessa Quayle: Why.
- Justin Quayle: Be reasonable. There are millions of people, they all need help. It's what the agencies are here for.
- Tessa Quayle: Yeah, but these are three people that WE can help.
- Tessa Quayle: It's an outrageous thing. It's almost if it's -it's a marriage of convenience- and the only thing it's going to produce is dead offspring.
- Justin Quayle: Your life is your own. That was always our agreement.
- Tessa Quayle: No, no, no. The agreement was, that my *work* was going to be my own. That's what makes me who I am.
- Tessa Quayle: Sorry, I've just got one question: Whose map is Britain using when it completely ignores the United Nations and decides to invade Iraq?
- Tessa Quayle: Or do you think it's more diplomatic to bend the will of a superpower and politely take part in Vietnam the Sequel?
- Justin Quayle: Well, ah, I can't speak for Sir Bernard...
- Tessa Quayle: Oh, I thought that was why you were here?
- [lecture audience laughs]
- Justin Quayle: Well, diplomats have to go where they're sent.
- Tessa Quayle: So do labradors.
- Justin Quayle: [Smiling] Ouch... Well, I think Mr. Bernard would argue that when peaceful means are exhausted...
- Tessa Quayle: Exhausted? Mr.Quayle, they're not exactly exhausted, they're just lying in the way of the tanks!
- [first lines]
- Justin Quayle: Oh, thank you Arnold. I... I can manage that. But I still don't see why you couldn't wait a couple of weeks. Why go all the way up to Loki?
- Tessa Quayle: Well, we want to hear Grace Makanga speak, and she won't be coming to Nairobi.