Mrs. Brown (1997)
Billy Connolly: John Brown
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Quotes
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Queen Victoria : Mr Brown.
John Brown : Yes, ma'am.
Queen Victoria : You have been told repeatedly not to stand in the courtyard unless requested to do so.
John Brown : Yes, ma'am.
Queen Victoria : Then why do you persist in doing it?
John Brown : Because I think Her Majesty is wrong. If ever there was a poor soul who needed fresh air, it is her.
Queen Victoria : The Queen will ride out if and when she chooses.
John Brown : And I intend to be there when she's ready.
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John Brown : You tell *Her Majesty* that if her husband were here he'd tell her to get out of the house and get some air into her lungs.
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John Brown : All I wanted to tell her was how I feel for God's sake!
Archie Brown : You don't tell Her Majesty how you feel
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Queen Victoria : Duty? You talk about duty?
John Brown : If duty and safety are served by the same end then, aye, I do.
Queen Victoria : I cannot believe you are saying this? You, who I have relied on all this time.
John Brown : Have I ever let you down before?
Queen Victoria : You stand there and tell me it is my duty. After all you promised me!
John Brown : I'm breaking no promises!
Queen Victoria : You are forcing me to do the very thing you know I fear most!
John Brown : For god's sake, woman, I'm just trying to keep you safe!
Queen Victoria : I will not hear any more about my safety! You made me a promise and now you have broken it!
John Brown : When I took you out riding, come rain or shine, because I knew it was right for you, when I kept the bairns off your back so you could have a bit of peace, when I saw you safe from home to home and you didn't even knowI was there. All I've ever thought about is you!
Queen Victoria : Then why send me back to them?
John Brown : Because I have to! Will you no listen to me, woman?
Queen Victoria : Do not presume to talk to your Queen in that manner.
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Prince of Wales (Bertie) : I wish to see my mother.
John Brown : She's busy.
Prince of Wales (Bertie) : Then convey her a message.
John Brown : She's away to Windsor tomorrow. Talk to her there.
Prince of Wales (Bertie) : Tell her the Prince of Wales wishes to speak with her urgently about matters concerning the press.
John Brown : Are you deaf as well as stupid?
Prince of Wales (Bertie) : What did you say?
John Brown : I said, Are you deaf as well as stupid?
Prince of Wales (Bertie) : Do you know who you address, sir?
John Brown : "Whom" you address.
Prince of Wales (Bertie) : [angrily] Get out of my way!
John Brown : [pinning him to the wall] Why don't you just leave us alone?
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John Brown : If I find out that you had anything to do with this, I will have you sacked.
Henry Ponsonby : I believe that decision rests with Her Majesty.
John Brown : Don't think I can't persuade her.
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Queen Victoria : [Queen spills water down her front]
John Brown : Honest to God woman, I never thought I'd see you in such a state, you must miss him dreadfully.
Queen Victoria : You do not! - he- Get him out!
[heads towards door]
Queen Victoria : GET HIM OUT! GET HIM OUT!
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[reporters and photographers are hiding, trying to get clandestine photos of the Queen and Brown. Brown smells a rat and goes off to investigate]
Journalist : Where'd he go?
John Brown : [appearing right next to them] THIS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR YOU BOYS?
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John Brown : It's only grief makes her like she is.
Archie Brown : Three years, John. Is that not a bit long to be grieving?
John Brown : She loved him.
Archie Brown : Come on, man. There's love and there's...
John Brown : What?
Archie Brown : You know what I mean.
John Brown : I'm not sure I do, Archie.
Archie Brown : There's love and there's behaving like you do because there's nobody to tell you not to.
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John Brown : We were due in at 1.15. You're late.
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John Brown : I promised to protect her - from people like you.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : [chuckling] For once in my life, I'm not the issue.
John Brown : She'll never understand it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : Oh, in time she will.
John Brown : She'll think I've betrayed her.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : But others will know that you acted for the greater good.
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John Brown : If I catch the miserable by-blow who told those men where she'd be, then I'll hang his balls to dry on Jock Wemyss, so I will!
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John Brown : I'm Her Majesty's Highland servant! Indoors and out. There's no stoppin' me now.
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Henry Ponsonby : We are, all of us, subject to forces beyond our control, Mr Brown. Even you.
John Brown : You'll regret saying that.
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John Brown : Do you hunt?
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : Mmm, occasionally.
John Brown : Daresay we could have you taught.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : To shoot, perhaps, but not to kill.
John Brown : If you hunt, you hunt to kill.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli : Well, then, I'll do my best.
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John Brown : You could buy that lot for garden ornaments and still see change from ten guineas.