Cold Comfort Farm (1995 TV Movie)

Joanna Lumley: Mrs. Mary Smiling

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• Mrs. Smiling : I mean there probably isn't even a bathroom.

  Flora Poste : It is Sussex, for goodness' sake.

• Mrs. Smiling : In fact, when poetry is combined with ill-groomed hair and eccentric dress, it's generally fatal. You're very lucky, Elfine. He must have seen your finer points.

• Mrs. Smiling : It's bad to be dewy-eyed around smart people, but you can always secretly despise them.

• Mrs. Smiling : Of course you may stay here as long as you like. But I expect you should want to find some work to earn enough for a flat of your own.

  Flora Poste : Work! What kind of work?

  Mrs. Smiling : Oh, it's been ages since I've done any, but there must be something that would do... bookkeeping... beekeeping...

• Flora Poste : I'm willing to bet there are also cousins called Seth and Reuben.

  Mrs. Smiling : Why?

  Flora Poste : Highly sexed young men living on a farm are always called Seth or Reuben.