Titanic (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2012)

Maria Doyle Kennedy: Muriel Batley

Quotes 

• Annie Desmond : [telling Muriel to put on her life jacket]  Just... Just put it on and come with me.

  Muriel Batley : No. I have to get my jewels first.

  John Batley : Never mind that.

  Muriel Batley : I'm not giving them up. What else have I got to show for the last 20 years?

• John Batley : It was kind of Lord Manton to invite us.

  Muriel Batley : And we know why he was so kind.

  John Batley : He wanted to show his gratitude to someone who has worked for him with duty and discretion.

  Muriel Batley : [laughing]  Well, discretion I grant you.

  John Batley : What are you talking about?

  Muriel Batley : About a young lady in leafy Dulwich who doesn't know that she's the bastard daughter of the Earl of Manton, thanks to the ever-so-discreet John Batley, Esquire.

  John Batley : Have you been reading my papers?

  Muriel Batley : No. The birds told me. Of course I read your papers. Very dull they are, too, most of them.

  John Batley : You shouldn't have done that.

  Muriel Batley : What should I have done? Locked in a boring house on a boring street in a boring suburb of a city I hate. What would you suggest I do?

• Muriel Batley : Well, let's just hope there was no one we know in the saloon. Because I wouldn't want any witnesses to that exhibition of groveling. I'm surprised you have any stomach left after crawling on it for most of the afternoon.

• Muriel Batley : Why is it so hard for you to understand that I want to feel, just once... just once... that my life is worth living? That it matters that I was born. That a part, a speck of my existence has some... tiny, infinitesimal value.

  John Batley : It has value to me.

• Annie Desmond : As soon as you're ready, make your way to the second-class section of the boat deck.

  Muriel Batley : Of course. Let's make sure even our drowning is second class.

• John Batley : Are we allowed in? We're only second class.

  Second Officer Lightoller : Everyone is welcome at the service.

  Muriel Batley : What do you mean 'only'? I am not 'only' anything.

• Muriel Batley : I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want to have to pay court to my Lady of Manton, who thinks she's so far above us when she's got the brains of a kipper and the charisma of an egg.

• Louisa, Countess of Manton : What a stroke of luck.

  Muriel Batley : As if you needed luck, you patronizing bitch!

• Hugh, Earl of Manton : Will you shut up!

  Muriel Batley : I will not shut up for a dirty philanderer like you! Oh, yes. Quite the big nobleman now, aren't you? What about your grubby little secrets in Dulwich?

  John Batley : Come away, you foolish, foolish woman! Are you pleased with yourself? So now, even if we do survive, I won't have a job to come home to?

  Muriel Batley : Oh, stop whining.

• Muriel Batley : No more gracious put-downs. I am not in the mood. You think you're so smart, so fine, so aristocratic. You are pathetic, stupid, and ignorant.

• Hugh, Earl of Manton : Batley! Over here! Come and take control of your wife!

  Muriel Batley : Take control? How dare you, you arrogant pig!

• Muriel Batley : Well, let's be friends now. Let's put all our regrets behind us and... and die at peace with one another. Please, John.

  John Batley : Regrets? How could I have any regrets when marrying you was the most exciting... the only exciting thing I've ever done? How... How could I regret that?

• Muriel Batley : I was nice when you married me, wasn't I? I wonder what happened to that nice, reasonable woman. When did she... When did she go away?