“You lice! You rats! You refuse me? There is no gentler dove in all Babylon than I.”
Constance Talmadge - Marguerite de Navarre / The Mountain Girl

“If I understand anything, I understand anger. And that's because I understand what it feels like to be rejected. And don't think I don't understand loneliness too.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Steerpike

“- Dr. Austin Sloper: How is it possible to protect such a willing victim?
- Lavinia Penniman: You will kill her if you deny her this marriage.
- Dr. Austin Sloper: You forget I'm a doctor. People don't die of such things.”

Ralph David Richardson - Dr. Austin Sloper
Miriam Hopkins - Lavinia Penniman

“- Emma Woodhouse: The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage.
- Mr Knightley: I do not comprehend it because it is madness.”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Woodhouse
Jeremy Northam - Mr Knightley

“- Peter: I love you, but...
- Both: I'm not in love with you.
- Peter: I don't want to get married.
- Bride: I don't want to get married, either.
- Both: We are not getting married!”
Thomas Jane - Peter Donahue