Enchanted April (1991)

Joan Plowright: Mrs Fisher

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Quotes 

• Lotty : Did you know Keats?

  Mrs. Fisher : Keats! No I didn't, and I didn't know Shakespeare or Chaucer either.

• Mrs. Fisher : In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.

• Mrs. Fisher : All my dead friends don't seem worth reading tonight. They always say the same things. Good things, but always the same.

• Mellersh Wilkins : Lady Caroline, housekeeping for a party that includes my wife - you render me speechless! You do know she's the daughter of Lord Dester, THE Lord Dester?

  Mrs. Fisher : Ah! Well that accounts for it then. The botch-up her father made in his department during the war was a national scandal!

  Mellersh Wilkins : They never could actually prove anything.

• Mrs. Fisher : Really!

  Lotty : Really what?

  Mrs. Fisher : Well... really!

• Lotty : I was just thinking about cuckoos for some reason. It's odd.

  Mrs. Fisher : Very odd.

• Mrs. Fisher : [to Lotty]  I hope you're not in the habit of seeing dead people, however distinguished - it's not in the best of taste! I'm sure the last thing I would want to see is my late husband Mr. Fisher crossing the road in front of my house.

• Mrs. Fisher : That's a beautiful dress...

  Caroline : No I've had it a hundred years.

  Mrs. Fisher : ...but you must be very cold in it. Its easy to catch a chill here after dark. You look as if you had nothing on underneath.

  Caroline : I haven't.

• Mrs Fisher : I'm a perfect sharer of your holiday, Mrs. Arbuthnot. All I wish to do is sit in the shade and remember better days and better men.