Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Alan Rickman: Colonel Brandon

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• Colonel Brandon : What can I do?

  Elinor Dashwood : Colonel, you have done so much already...

  Colonel Brandon : Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.

• Margaret : Have you really been to the East Indies, Colonel?

  Colonel Brandon : I have.

  Margaret : What's it like?

  Sir John Middleton : Like? Hot.

  Colonel Brandon : [mysteriously]  The air is full of spices.

• Colonel Brandon : Your sister seems very happy.

  Elinor Dashwood : Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.

  Colonel Brandon : She is wholly unspoilt.

  Elinor Dashwood : Rather too unspoilt, in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.

  Colonel Brandon : I knew a lady very like your sister--the same impulsive sweetness of temper--who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.

• [after a reading of Spenser's The Faerie Queen] 

  Marianne : Shall we continue tomorrow?

  Colonel Brandon : No, for I must away.

  Marianne : Away? Where?

  Colonel Brandon : That I cannot tell you. It is a secret.

• Colonel Brandon : Miss Dashwood, Miss Marianne--I come to issue an invitation. A picnic on my estate at Delaford if you would care to join us on Thursday next. Mrs. Jennings daughter and her husband are traveling up especially.

  Elinor Dashwood : We should be delighted, Colonel.

  Colonel Brandon : I will of course be including Mr. Willoughby in the party.

  Marianne : I shall be delighted to join you, Colonel.

• Sir John Middleton : You know what they're saying, of course. Hm? Word is, you've developed a taste for certain company. And why not, say I. A man like you in your prime... she'd be a very fortunate young lady.

  Colonel Brandon : Marianne Dashwood would no more think of me than she would of you, John.

  Sir John Middleton : Brandon, my boy, do not think of yourself so meanly.

  Colonel Brandon : And all the better for her.