Belle (2013)
Sarah Gadon: Elizabeth Murray
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Quotes
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Elizabeth Murray : If I were in your place, I would choose the man I love. I only hope he's worth it.
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Elizabeth Murray : Aren't you quietly relieved that you shan't be at the caprice of some silly sir and his fortune? The rest of us haven't a choice - not a chance of inheritance if we have brothers, and forbidden from any activity that allows us to support ourselves. We are but their property.
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Elizabeth Murray : Do you think I may see Mr. James in town?
Dido Elizabeth Belle : Perhaps.
Elizabeth Murray : I could fall in love with such a man, Dido.
Lady Mary Murray : Love. Hm!
Dido Elizabeth Belle : Bette, you shall feel no such sentiment, for you shall either end poor or broken-hearted.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle : We are to finally come out?
Lord Mansfield : Elizabeth is to come out.
Lady Ashford : Dido is not.
Dido Elizabeth Belle : But... why?
Lord Mansfield : You understand the ways of the world for a female, Dido. Elizabeth has no income.
Lady Ashford : [to Elizabeth] You are to meet as many gentlemen as possible before we make the match.
Lord Mansfield : [to Dido] When all this is gone to her father, there'll be nothing left for her.
Dido Elizabeth Belle : And... me?
Lady Ashford : Any gentlemen of good breeding would be unlikely to form a serious attachment to Dido, and a man without... would lower her position in society.
Elizabeth Murray : She is not merely my cousin, Mama. She is my sister.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle : James Ashford is not kind. He is not appropriate.
Elizabeth Murray : Appropriate? The brother of the man you are to marry is not appropriate for me?
Dido Elizabeth Belle : He does not desire you, Bette! Or at least, even if he does, you would regret such a mistake. He... he... laid his hands on me, Bette. In the most ungentlemanly fashion.
Elizabeth Murray : Why should you say such a thing?
Dido Elizabeth Belle : He hurt me!
Elizabeth Murray : You are a liar!
Dido Elizabeth Belle : Why would I lie to you?
Elizabeth Murray : I don't know! But do you not see? Have you never been able to see? He would never touch you! You are beneath him!
Dido Elizabeth Belle : [stunned and angry] I am beneath him?
Elizabeth Murray : Yes. Yes! You are...
Dido Elizabeth Belle : What? Tell me! Tell me what I am!
Elizabeth Murray : You are... you are... YOU ARE ILLEGITIMATE!
