Easy Virtue (2008)

Kristin Scott Thomas: Veronica Whittaker

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• Mrs. Whittaker : Smile, Marion.

  Marion Whittaker : I don't feel like smiling.

  Mr. Whittaker : You're English dear, fake it.

• Larita Whittaker : The pleasure is all mine.

  Mrs. Whittaker : Oh, you're American.

• Mrs. Whittaker : What am I supposed to do with the bauble of a woman?

  Mr. Whittaker : Hang her?

  Hilda Whittaker : I think she's splendid.

  Mrs. Whittaker : Oh! Do you, Hilda? Well, we can relax.

  Marion Whittaker : She's not what I expected.

  Mrs. Whittaker : She's exactly what I expected.

  Mr. Whittaker : Surely, not exactly! She wasn't drunk.

• Mrs. Whittaker : well, coming from a country no older than the chair you are sitting in, seems a very practical solution!

• Mrs. Whittaker : You're smiling, Jim.

  Mr. Whittaker : Oh God forbid. The wind might change.

• Mrs. Whittaker : But what will John do in the city?

  Larita Whittaker : Work. It's not uncommon.

• Mrs. Whittaker : Is it true you've had as many lovers as they say?

  Larita Whittaker : [gets up from the dinner table]  Of course it's not true, Mrs. Whitaker. Hardly any of them actually loved me.

• Mrs. Whittaker : So speaks the siren leading the sailors to their death.

  Larita Whittaker : Well, at least I'm not Medusa turning them to stone.

• Mrs. Whittaker : Smile, Marion.

  Marion Whittaker : I don't feel like smiling.

• Lord Hurst : Just look at this turnout...

  Mrs. Whittaker : Hmm... they've only come for a repeat performance of the Cincinnati Succubus.