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I had such a dream last night. I was floating above the trees with my lips connected to... to those of a beautiful figure, for what seemed like an age. Flowery treetops sprung up beneath us and we, um... rested on them with the lightness of a cloud.

Amanda Root + Ciarán Hinds in PERSUASION (1995), dir. Roger Michell

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).

- Forgive me, Your Highness, I did not see you. - Your aim would suggest otherwise.

~ Carolus-Duran, Portrait, en pied, d'Élisabeth, vicomtesse Greffulhe (1887)

JENNIFER EHLE as ELIZABETH BENNET

Don’t you agree that, on one’s first visit to Florence, one must have a room with a view?

"Two years ago, we were there at Christmas, as we do every year, and Danny (Liam's son) had these T-shirts made without my knowledge. Christmas Eve comes, and there's a ritual of dressing the tree. I'm last down, but they are all down in these T-shirts, but I don't know this. So I start dressing the tree, and it took about ten or fifteen minutes of pointing and sniggering for me to say, 'What is wrong with everybody?' And I hadn't seen that they were all wearing that T-shirt. That was, I guess, an early Christmas present, and that was revisited by Liam."

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Queen Charlotte's Ball, London, 1959.