Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Glorious Horrors (2015)

Simon Russell Beale: Ferdinand Lyle

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Quotes 

• [Vanessa Ives talks to Ferdinand Lyle at the Ball] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : [as the two look at the dancing guests]  A dizzying panorama, isn't it? All the toys of love out of the box and scattered around the floor.

  Vanessa Ives : And at the end of the night to be put carefully away. These terrible games.

  Ferdinand Lyle : And do you ever play... or only spectate?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smiles]  I never learned the rules.

• [Madame Kali tells Ferdinand Lyle that God turned away from her] 

  Madame Kali : Despite what you may think... I didn't turn from God. He turned from me. From all of us. Look around. You tell me, where is He... in this city of perpetual suffering? In this life? You tell me where.

  Ferdinand Lyle : There are those who say you can find Him within.

  Madame Kali : They're wrong.

• [Madame Kali and Ferdinand Lyle discuss how unique Vanessa Ives is] 

  Madame Kali : The time comes when the spider must touch the fly.

  Ferdinand Lyle : And if the fly eats the spider?

  Madame Kali : You admire her.

  Ferdinand Lyle : Fine. In our dolorous old bestiary, she's a truly... unique creature.

• [Madame Kali tells Ferdinand Lyle about the time during the Renaissance] 

  Madame Kali : Did you know that during the Renaissance... women used to put poison into their eyes? A little drop of belladonna to dilate the pupil... to simulate erotic excitement. But like all addictions, it took more and more to produce the desired effect. So they slowly... killed themselves. What won't we do for beauty?

  Ferdinand Lyle : And youth.

  Madame Kali : Ah, yes. Youth. That takes more than a drop of poison. That takes everything... doesn't it? Such a price we pay. Such a price.

• [Ferdinand Lyle talks to Hecate Poole at Dorian Gray's Ball] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : I'm not sure what game you're playing, my dear, but I so enjoy watching your scales catch the light as you coil.

  Hecate Poole : Don't you like games, Mr. Lyle?

  Ferdinand Lyle : Some. And is your mother aware of yours?

  Hecate Poole : My mother has games of her own. Mine are more far-sighted. But there's time enough for that. I am, after all, very young.

  Ferdinand Lyle : As is she.

  Hecate Poole : For now.

• [Ferdinand Lyle asks to walk Vanessa Ives home from the Ball as he feels she's in danger] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : Let me escort you home, please?

  Vanessa Ives : Let me say good night to the doctor. I'll be right back. And thank you.

  Ferdinand Lyle : It's not every night I leave with the most beautiful woman in London on my arm.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Vanessa Ives walks at the center of the Ball and sees the witches surround her, and the room and all of its guest dance under a rain of blood, as Vanessa faints]  Miss Ives! Miss Ives! Can you hear me! Can you hear me!

  Ferdinand Lyle : Miss Ives!