Emma Quotes

Emma: I have a voice that only a deaf mother could love.

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Emma: I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Emma: Was he handsome?

Jane: Many say he is.

Emma: Was he agreeable?

Jane: He was in no way disagreeable.

Emma: Was he a man of information?

Jane: All his statements seem correct.

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Frank Churchill: Is your horse just washing his feet or are the darker forces at work here?

Emma Woodhouse: The latter, I'm afraid. Something's happened to the wheel and I cannot move.

Frank Churchill: You'll just have to live here then. Buhbye.

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Miss Bates: It left us speechless, quite speechless I tell you, and we have not stopped talking of it since.

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Mr. Knightley: [of Frank] He doesn't come here for 20 years and then disappears for a day.

Emma Woodhouse: He had important business.
[pause while Mr. Knightley looks at her quizzically]

Emma Woodhouse: He's gone to London to have his hair cut.

Mr. Knightley: His hair cut? Imperative business indeed.

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Mr. Knightley: Emma, you didn't ask me to contribute a riddle.

Emma: Your entire personality is a riddle, Mr. Knightley. I thought you overqualified.

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Mr. Knightley: I can think of nothing less appealing than an evening of watching other people dance. Go on!
[throwing stick for dog to fetch]

Emma: Then you shall have to dance yourself.

Mr. Knightley: I have no taste for it. I'd rather fetch that stick.

Emma: I'll try to remember to bring it to the ball.

Mr. Knightley: [pause] I just want to stay here where it's cozy.

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Mrs. Weston: A suspicion has darted into my head that I cannot get rid of - Mr. Knightley and Jane Fairfax are a couple!

Emma Woodhouse: Mrs. Weston, please do not take to matchmaking, you do it ill!

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Mrs. Weston: A suspicion has darted into my head that I cannot get rid of - Mr. Knightley and Jane Fairfax are a couple!

Emma: Mrs. Weston, please do not take to matchmaking, you do it ill!

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Polina Delacroix: Mr. Shipley, Ylva will set you up in the Guest Cottage.

Emma Dinsmore: Ylva? What kind of name is Ylva?

Alex Sheldon: She's Swedesh.

Emma Dinsmore: That's not a real name. Who made that up, Jaqcues Cartier?

Alex Sheldon: [growls] It's her name, okay?

Emma Dinsmore: Okay. How do you spell it?

Alex Sheldon: Just like it sounds.

Emma Dinsmore: I-L-V-A

Alex Sheldon: No. It's Y-L-V-A

Emma Dinsmore: [confused] Y-L-V-A? That's not how it's sounds!

Alex Sheldon: Well, that how she spells it!

Emma Dinsmore: Okay! You want Y-L-V-A? It's Y-L-V-A.

Alex Sheldon: Good.

Emma Dinsmore: Just so you know, it's not how it sounds.

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Polina Delacroix: Mr. Shipley, Ylva will set you up in the Guest Cottage.

Emma Dinsmore: Ylva? What kind of name is Ylva?

Alex Sheldon: She's Swedesh.

Emma Dinsmore: That's not a real name. Who made that up, Jaqcues Cartier?

Alex Sheldon: [growls] It's her name, okay?

Emma Dinsmore: Okay. How do you spell it?

Alex Sheldon: Just like it sounds.

Emma Dinsmore: I-L-V-A

Alex Sheldon: No. It's Y-L-V-A

Emma Dinsmore: [confused] Y-L-V-A? That's not how it's sounds!

Alex Sheldon: Well, that how she spells it!

Emma Dinsmore: Okay! You want Y-L-V-A? It's Y-L-V-A.

Alex Sheldon: Good.

Emma Dinsmore: Just so you know, it's not how it sounds.

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Emma Woodhouse: Not one in a hundred men have "gentleman" so plainly written across them as Mr. Knightley!

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Emma Woodhouse: Now I need not call you Mr. Knightley. I may call you *my* Mr. Knightley.

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Emma Woodhouse: The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made.

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Emma Woodhouse: The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made.

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Emma: [looking at the sky] Hi moon.

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Emma: [looking at the sky] Hi moon.

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Emma: Has an invitation arrived for a party at the Coles?

Mr. Woodhouse: No, thank Heaven. The Coles are nice people, but we should have to go outside to get there.

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Emma: I do not admire Mr. Knightley as I have so long thought.
[pause]

Emma: I love him. So dearly, so greatly!

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Emma: I do not admire Mr. Knightley as I have so long thought.
[pause]

Emma: I love him. So dearly, so greatly!

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Emma: I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Emma: Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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Emma: Stop calling me beautiful!

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[Emma shoots a badly-aimed arrow]

Mr. Knightley: Try not to kill my dogs.

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[Emma shoots a badly-aimed arrow]

Mr. Knightley: Try not to kill my dogs.

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[In the middle of a heated discussion, Emma tries to change the subject]

Emma Woodhouse: Did I mention we are having a new drain installed?

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[Talking about Mrs. Elton]

Emma: She'd never seen him before, and she called him Knightley!

Harriet: I saw her at church. She seemed...

Emma: 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: There is only one thing to do with a person as impossible as she.

Harriet: What?

Emma: I must throw a party for her. Otherwise everyone will feel at once how much I dislike her.

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Adam Shipley: He was wracked with confusion. For the first time in his life, he understood the true meaning of the expressions horns of a dilemma and between a rock and a hard place - although the concept of paying through the nose had always tormented him. How does the money get in the nose in the first place? Once in, is it pulled out by hand, or is a sneeze involved? And who would accept such a transaction? Burning questions all, but he had bigger fish to fry.

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Alex: I uh...

Emma Dinsmore: Well, I uh you too.

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