Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Sarah Miles: Rosy
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Quotes
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Charles Shaughnessy : It's not a hangin' matter to be young... but it maybe should be a hangin' matter for a - man of middle age - to - try and steal the youth from a young girl. Especially, a man like me and a - girl like you. You were meant for the wide world, Rose. Not this place, not this. Me - I was born for it. It wouldn't do, Rose. I just know it wouldn't.
Rosy Ryan : So, you - you don't want me, then?
Charles Shaughnessy : [Leans to kiss Rose] Don't want you? Oh...
[They embrace]
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Rosy Ryan : It will make me a different person, won't it?
Father Collins : Marriage?
Rosy Ryan : No, the satisfaction of the flesh.
Father Collins : Well, that's a gate I've not been through, myself. But, no, it won't make you a different person.
Rosy Ryan : I want it to.
Father Collins : Child, what are you expecting?
[Look up at noisy seagulls flying above]
Father Collins : Wings, is it?
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Father Collins : [Explaining why God ordains the sacrament of marriage] And thirdly, for the satisfaction of the flesh. Are you scared of that?
Rosy Ryan : Yes.
Father Collins : It should be nothing to be scared of Rosy. A function of the body.
Rosy Ryan : I suppose all girls is a bit scared before.
Father Collins : Oh, and fellas too.
Rosy Ryan : Yes?
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Father Collins : [having encountered Rosy walking alone on the beach] Have you nothin' to do?
Rosy Ryan : Precisely that!
Father Collins : Well, Miss Precisely, that's a pity! Doin' nothin's a dangerous occupation!
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Charles Shaughnessy : [Rose has professed her love to Charles] Rose, you're mistaking a penny mirror for the sun - do you not see that?
Rosy Ryan : I see you always digging a low pit for yourself - when you should be standing on a heap of pride.
Charles Shaughnessy : You coming in here and saying what you did just now is the only cause I've ever had for pride.
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Rosy Ryan : [after her affair with Doryan has become public] You're very kind to me today.
Charles Shaughnessy : Am I?
Rosy Ryan : Yes. Why?
Charles Shaughnessy : Am I not usually kind to you?
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[first lines]
Rosy Ryan : Give it over, Michael. Thanks.
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Rosy Ryan : You enjoyed yourself in Dublin, then?
Charles Shaughnessy : Well, I did and I didn't. A conference of village school teachers, you know, is not exactly a...
Rosy Ryan : Bacchanalia?
Charles Shaughnessy : Bacchanalia, precisely.
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Rosy Ryan : In what way, precisely, was she - stimulatin'?
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Charles Shaughnessy : Why don't you see, Rose, I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows, me self.
Rosy Ryan : I'm not daft, you know.
Charles Shaughnessy : But, you're terribly young.
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Charles Shaughnessy : You're a wonderful girl, Rose.
Rosy Ryan : No. No, I'm not.
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Rosy Ryan : You always think the best of people, don't you?
Charles Shaughnessy : Why not?
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Father Collins : Where have you been?
Rosy Ryan : Ridin' - with Major Doryan.
Father Collins : You're bold as brass! You think that's a suitable connection for a decent Irish wife?
Rosy Ryan : I think that is for my - husband to say, Father.
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Father Collins : What more are you wanting now?
Rosy Ryan : I don't know that, either.
Father Collins : That's a lie.
Rosy Ryan : It's not. How can I know? I don't even know what more there is.
Father Collins : You've got a good man now, haven't you?
Rosy Ryan : The best.
Father Collins : Well? And you've got enough money. Not much, but enough.
Rosy Ryan : Aye.
Father Collins : And you've got your health. You're not sick?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Father Collins : Well, there is nothing more, you graceless girl.
Rosy Ryan : But, there is.
Father Collins : There is not.
Rosy Ryan : I know there is. There must be, Father Hugh.
Father Collins : Why? Glory be to God, why must there be? Because Rosy Ryan wants it?
Rosy Ryan : Aye.
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Charles Shaughnessy : What about you? You and him?
Rosy Ryan : Nothing.
Charles Shaughnessy : What do you mean, nothing?
Rosy Ryan : It's over.
Charles Shaughnessy : Was that because I went and stayed away?
Rosy Ryan : No. It's over.
Charles Shaughnessy : Have you told him?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Charles Shaughnessy : He doesn't know, then?
Rosy Ryan : Yes, he knows.
Charles Shaughnessy : How?
Rosy Ryan : He must.
Charles Shaughnessy : You're as close as that, are you?
Rosy Ryan : We were, yes.
Charles Shaughnessy : Rose, you must tell me the truth. Do you think you're ever gonna forget him? Of course not. He'd be like a ghost about the place. Rose, am I right?
Rosy Ryan : Yes, you're right. It's busted, Charles. I busted it.
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Father Collins : Have you nothing to say to me?
Rosy Ryan : What should I have to say to you?
Father Collins : You could say: 'Father Hugh, there's nothing between me and Major Doryan.'
Rosy Ryan : There isn't.
Father Collins : Say it, then.
Rosy Ryan : There is nothing between me and Major Doryan.
Father Collins : Look at me, Rosy. Oh, child, what a face. Rose, tell me now.
Rosy Ryan : What?
Father Collins : You'll have to tell it in confessional, you little fool.
Rosy Ryan : I don't have to come... to the confessional.
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Rosy Ryan : They really thought... I was the one who betrayed that man.
Charles Shaughnessy : Rose... I don't for one moment suppose that anyone betrayed him. Why should they? They just... They just wanted it so, that's all. And they wanted it to be you, too. For other reasons. Truth was told, they envy you. They always have. They've always had a rare, old contempt for me, too. I tell you, I'm not for letting any of that lot know we've busted up. We'll just keep up a front until I'm well and out of it.
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Father Collins : Now, what exactly is the trouble between you and Charles?
Rosy Ryan : No. No trouble.
Father Collins : Are you asking me to believe you're happy?
Rosy Ryan : I'm not asking you anything.
Father Collins : Are you happy?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Father Collins : Why not?
Rosy Ryan : I don't know.
Father Collins : Come on, Rosy, now give me a try.
Rosy Ryan : I don't. All right. Because I am stupid and conceited... and self-centered and ungrateful like you've always told me. For I have everything I wanted, have I not?
Father Collins : You have!
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Charles Shaughnessy : Do you know that the British government has got a law now... forbidding the playing of German music?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Charles Shaughnessy : Can you imagine such foolishness?
Rosy Ryan : British.
Charles Shaughnessy : Well, all governments is foolish, more or less. An Irish government would be the same.
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Charles Shaughnessy : Rose?
Rosy Ryan : Yes?
Charles Shaughnessy : You'd never be unfaithful to me, would you?
Rosy Ryan : Charles.
Charles Shaughnessy : I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked that. No, that's a rotten question for a man to ask his wife.
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Rosy Ryan : Charles, do you know or not?
Charles Shaughnessy : I know.
Rosy Ryan : Since when?
Charles Shaughnessy : The beginning. Don't lower your head, Rose.
Rosy Ryan : Why didn't you speak?
Charles Shaughnessy : I should have, shouldn't I?
Rosy Ryan : I don't know.
Charles Shaughnessy : It was easier not to, I suppose. I didn't want to know, you know. And then I thought, if I let you burn it out, the pair of you... you'd perhaps come back to me.
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Charles Shaughnessy : Now, there was a man with a mind, if you like.
Rosy Ryan : Why? What did he say?
Charles Shaughnessy : I couldn't tell you, Rose. Whatever it was, it was wasted on us. Teachers are a poor lot, surely.
Rosy Ryan : If teachers were the poor lot, like you're always making out... how would the pupils be learning such riches?