Alan Rickman credited as playing...
Colonel Brandon
- Colonel Brandon: What can I do?
- Elinor Dashwood: Colonel, you have done so much already...
- Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.
- Colonel Brandon: Your sister seems very happy.
- Elinor Dashwood: Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.
- Colonel Brandon: She is wholly unspoilt.
- Elinor Dashwood: Rather too unspoilt, in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
- Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister--the same impulsive sweetness of temper--who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
- Margaret: Have you really been to the East Indies, Colonel?
- Colonel Brandon: I have.
- Margaret: What's it like?
- Sir John Middleton: Like? Hot.
- Colonel Brandon: [mysteriously] The air is full of spices.
- [after a reading of Spenser's The Faerie Queen]
- Marianne: Shall we continue tomorrow?
- Colonel Brandon: No, for I must away.
- Marianne: Away? Where?
- Colonel Brandon: That I cannot tell you. It is a secret.
- Colonel Brandon: Miss Dashwood, Miss Marianne--I come to issue an invitation. A picnic on my estate at Delaford, if you would care to join us on Thursday next. Mrs. Jennings's daughter and her husband are traveling up especially.
- Elinor Dashwood: We should be delighted, Colonel.
- Colonel Brandon: I will of course be including Mr. Willoughby in the party.
- Marianne: I shall be delighted to join you, Colonel.
- Sir John Middleton: You know what they're saying, of course. Hm? Word is, you've developed a taste for certain company. And why not, say I. A man like you in your prime... she'd be a very fortunate young lady.
- Colonel Brandon: Marianne Dashwood would no more think of me than she would of you, John.
- Sir John Middleton: Brandon, my boy, do not think of yourself so meanly.
- Colonel Brandon: And all the better for her.