“The Winslow Boy” quotes

(1999)
Movie The Winslow Boy
Title The Winslow Boy
Year 1999
Director David Mamet
Genre Drama, Romance
Interpreted by
All actors – Matthew Pidgeon, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Lana Bilzerian, Sarah Flind, Aden Gillett, Guy Edwards, Colin Stinton, Eve Bland, Sara Stewart, Perry Fenwick, Alan Polonsky, Jeremy Northam, Neil North, Chris Porter, Jim Dunk, Duncan Gould, Ian Soundy, John Grayson
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  • “- Sir Robert Morton: I wept today because right had been done.
    - Catherine Winslow: Not justice?
    - Sir Robert Morton: No, not justice. Right. Easy to do justice. Very hard to do right.”

    Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
    Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
    [Tag:justice, right]
  • “- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, you still pursue your feminist activities?
    - Catherine Winslow: Oh yes.
    - Sir Robert Morton: Pity. It's a lost cause.”

    Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
    Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
  • - Grace Winslow: You don't behave as if you are in love.
    - Catherine Winslow: How does one behave as if one is in love?
    - Arthur Winslow: One doesn't read "The Social Evil and The Social Good". One reads Lord Byron.

    Gemma Jones - Grace Winslow
    Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
    Nigel Hawthorne - Arthur Winslow
    [Tag:love, poetry, reading]
  • “- Catherine Winslow: One thing puzzles me. Why are you always at such pains to prevent people knowing the truth about you, Sir Robert?
    - Sir Robert Morton: Am I indeed?
    - Catherine Winslow: You know that you are. Why?
    - Sir Robert Morton: Which of us knows the truth about himself?
    - Catherine Winslow: That is no answer.”

    Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
    Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
  • “- Catherine Winslow: Oh, do you really think so, Sir Robert? How little you know about women. Good-bye. I doubt that we shall meet again.
    - Sir Robert Morton: Oh, do you really think so, Miss Winslow? How little you know about men.”

    Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
    Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
    [Tag:awareness, men, women]
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