Hugh Grant credited as playing...
Edward Ferrars
- Edward Ferrars: I-I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.
- Elinor Dashwood: You talk of feeling idle and useless. Imagine how that is compounded when one has no hope and no choice of any occupation whatsoever.
- Edward Ferrars: Our circumstances are therefore precisely the same.
- Elinor Dashwood: Except that you will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.
- Edward Ferrars: Perhaps Margaret is right.
- Elinor Dashwood: Right?
- Edward Ferrars: Piracy is our only option.
- Edward Ferrars: Your friendship has been the most important of my life.
- Elinor Dashwood: You will always have it.
- Elinor Dashwood: Margaret has always wanted to travel.
- Edward Ferrars: I know. She's, eh, heading an expedition to China shortly. I am to go as her servant, but only on the understanding that I am to be very badly treated.
- Elinor Dashwood: What will your duties be?
- Edward Ferrars: Sword fighting--obviously, administering rum, and swabbing.
- Elinor Dashwood: Which of those duties will take precedence?
- Edward Ferrars: Swabbing, I imagine.
- [Edward and Elinor are baiting Margaret, who is playfully hiding]
- Edward Ferrars: I, eh, wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.
- Elinor Dashwood: Oh. No. No, um, she's quite wrong, um, for I believe it is in Belgium.
- Edward Ferrars: Belgium. Surely not, I think you must be thinking of the Volga.
- Margaret: [under the table] The Volga?
- Elinor Dashwood: Of course, the Volga, which, as you know, starts in...
- Edward Ferrars: Vladivostock, and ends in...
- Elinor Dashwood: Wimbledon.
- Edward Ferrars: Precisely. Where the coffee beans come from.
- Margaret: [coming out] Ugh! The source of the Nile is in Abyssinia.
- Mrs. Dashwood: My youngest is not to be found this morning. She's a little shy of strangers at present.
- Edward Ferrars: N-n-naturally. I'm sh-shy of strangers myself and I have nothing like her excuse.
- Edward Ferrars: All I want--all I have ever wanted--is the quiet of a private life, but, eh, my mother is determined to see me distinguished.
- Edward Ferrars: Miss Dashwood... Elinor, I must speak to you. There is something of great importance that I need to, eh... t-tell you... a-about my, eh, education.
- Elinor Dashwood: Your education?
- Edward Ferrars: Yes. It w-was conducted, eh, oddly enough, in Plymouth.
- Elinor Dashwood: Indeed?
- Edward Ferrars: Yes. Do you know it?
- Elinor Dashwood: Plymouth?
- Edward Ferrars: Yes.
- Elinor Dashwood: No.
- Edward Ferrars: Ah.
- Edward Ferrars: I trust I find you all well?
- Marianne: Thank you, Edward, we are all very well.
- Margaret: We've been enjoying very fine weather.
- [Marianne nudges her]
- Margaret: Well, we have.
- Edward Ferrars: Well, I-I'm glad to hear it. The roads were very... dry.
- Fanny: They're all exceedingly spoilt, I find. Miss Margaret spends all her time up trees and under furniture. I've barely had a civil word from Marianne.
- Edward Ferrars: My dear Fanny, they've just lost their father. Their lives will never be the same again.
- Fanny: That is no excuse.
- Edward Ferrars: Colonel Brandon must be a man of great worth and respectability.
- Elinor Dashwood: Yes, he is the kindest and best of men.