“Enchanted April” quotes

“All my dead friends don't seem worth reading tonight. They always say the same things. Good things, but always the same.”
Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher

“- Caroline Dester: I want to just sit and not talk and not have to be the centre of attention all the time. You know what that's like don't you?
- Rose Arbuthnot: No.”
Polly Walker - Caroline Dester
Miranda Richardson - Rose Arbuthnot

“In my day husbands and beds were very seldom mentioned in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin.”
Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher

“- Mellersh Wilkins: You accepted an invitation from a friend without consulting me?
- Lottie Wilkins: I'm consulting you now!
- Mellersh Wilkins: Well you can write her and just tell her you can't go, it's absolutely out of the question!
- Lottie Wilkins: I can't do that!
- Mellersh Wilkins: Why not?
- Lottie Wilkins: Because I don't want to!”
Alfred Molina - Mellersh Wilkins
Josie Lawrence - Lottie Wilkins

“I've wasted so much time being beautiful.”
Polly Walker - Caroline Dester

“- Lottie Wilkins: Did you know Keats?
- Mrs. Fisher: Keats! No I didn't, and I didn't know Shakespeare or Chaucer either.”
Josie Lawrence - Lottie Wilkins
Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher

“I hope you're not in the habit of seeing dead people, however distinguished - it's not in the best of taste! I'm sure the last thing I would want to see is my late husband Mr. Fisher crossing the road in front of my house.”

Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher