Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Beggar's Comet (1990)

Stephen McHattie: Gabriel

Quotes 

• Gabriel : Why do people put flowers on graves? Do they really think it makes death smell sweeter?

  Elliot Burch : Why'd you bring me here?

  Gabriel : Does it make you uncomfortable?

  Elliot Burch : Only the company.

  Gabriel : Elliot... the war's over. In a month, you'll be bankrupt. In a year, you'll be in prison. Half your people are already mine.

  Elliot Burch : You're lying.

  Gabriel : Maybe I am. How will you ever be sure? Machiavelli wrote that a wise prince knows it is better to be feared than loved. Look around you. All these tombstones. All these wasted possibilities. There's no reason for us to be enemies, Elliot.

  Elliot Burch : [pointing to Cathy's headstone]  There's a reason.

  Gabriel : Catherine Chandler. You know, if I'd known all the trouble it would cause, I would never have killed her. But it's done. There she lies. If you want to lie down beside her, so be it. But I had heard that you were a more practical man.

  Elliot Burch : Maybe I was, once. She changed me.

  Gabriel : I don't think so.

  Elliot Burch : What do you mean?

  Gabriel : I know you.

  Elliot Burch : You don't know anything about me.