Poldark

Ross Poldark:
[to Elizabeth] There'll come a day when you want me as much as I want you now. Pray God, it's not too late for it'll be your only salvation.

Charles Poldark:
[to Warleggan] You must let me think it over. The ethics of business today do not come easily to me.

Reverend Johns:
Tell me, are the Indians as savage as we're told?

Ross Poldark:
They're much like you or me, Reverend, give or take a few suits of clothes.

Reverend Johns:
Aye, you surprise me, sir. You do surprise me. Well, they're not Christians, of course.

Ross Poldark:
Often more Christian han we.

Charles Poldark:
[about Warleggan] Once he gets his mind set on something, it takes a devil's shoulder to shift him.

[first lines]

Dr. Dwight Enys:
Have you been drinking?

Francis Poldark:
It's the custom on election night.

Francis Poldark:
Are you a fatalist, Dwight?

Dr. Dwight Enys:
Are we going to have a philosophical discussion, or have you a more personal reason for asking? thatquestion?

Francis Poldark:
Are we the masters of the dance or merely puppets do you think?

Francis Poldark:
[Making toast] Well, here's to the Devil... God knows whose side he was on tonight... and God knows whose side he'll be on tomorrow.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
Perhaps you didn't drink enough. Perhaps you should have gotten twice as drunk and slept it off. A pistol ball is very dramatic.

Francis Poldark:
A pistol ball, doctor, has no morning after.

Mrs. Tabb:
[Entering] Excuse me, sir, but there's a man here asking for Dr, Enys. Someone has been taken ill, sir.

Francis Poldark:
Oh, Mrs Tabb, tell them to be ill on a more convenient night.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
No, no, I must go.

Francis Poldark:
How is it, doctor, that people always seem to know where to find you?

Dr. Dwight Enys:
Because I always leave word where i am to be found.

Francis Poldark:
You must be the most accommodating doctor I know.

Sir Hugh Bodrugan:
[Laciviously entering the kitchen while Demelza is baking] Damn me if the sight of your bare arms half covered in flower don't drive me mad... like a delicious pie.

Zacky Martin:
[Putting all the funeral gift bottles together] It's a good job he's dead. If he'd seen this lot, he'd never had got to Heaven sober.

Jud Paynter:
It be a hard life , Capt'n. Thank God it do last no longer than a lifetime or I couldn't live through it.

Capt. Malcolm McNeil:
[Laciviosly] There's an old Scotch saying: it's never to early for a glass or a lass.

Caroline Penvenen:
Men are so stupid about money.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
My dear, we are stupid about everything.

Sir Hugh Bodrugan:
Wheal Grace! A old mine is like an old woman. The more you put in the less you get out.

Ross Poldark:
[on changing a diaper] When faced with the enemy, the Englishman proceeds with coolness and courage.

Ross Poldark:
If a man's ruined, he's ruined like a woman.

Capt. Malcolm McNeil:
The Devil take your man,

Demelza Poldark:
The Devil's a Cornishman, and he'll take you first.

Demelza Poldark:
Why don't you just let Henshawe blast the tunnel? There...

Ross Poldark:
It's dangerous there. You can't tell what may happen in an old mine. It's damened unpredictable... like a woman.

Demelza Poldark:
Huh? Not like a man, I suppose.

Demelza Poldark:
[to McNeil in his kilt] You look prettier than I do.

George Warleggan:
[Referring to Ross] Forgive me, Elizabeth, but he's the last man to advise anyone on anything. His own situation is desperate.

Elizabeth Poldark:
That's how Ross likes to live... on the edge of the pit.

George Warleggan:
Too hot a place for most of us,

Benjamin Penvenen:
[to Dr. Enys about his gout] Sixty years I've cherished that toe, and it turned on me like a dog.

Caroline Penvenen:
Your cure is worse than my malady.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
We often use one fire to put out another.

Ross Poldark:
[to Demeelza about his leaving for the war] It won't be forever. Nothing is forever.

Margaret:
[Opening scene. Poldark and Margaret have apparently had sex] When shall I see you again, Captain?

Ross Poldark:
[Detached] When the spirit moves me, Margaret.

Ross Poldark:
[Leaving the casino] My horse, Talbot.

Talbot:
Let me get you a carriage, Mr. Poldark.

Ross Poldark:
When I can't ride a horse, Talbot, you can order me a hearse.

Verity Poldark:
[Entering the cottage and seeing Ross sleeping off the night's drunk on the couch] Ten o'clock! What's wrong with the bedroom?

Ross Poldark:
The Stairs... The stairs make no concessions as to how a man comes home at night.

Verity Poldark:
[to Ross] Love is more likely to deceive a woman than a man, so I had to be sure.

Ross Poldark:
What's the summer going to be, Jud?

Jud Paynter:
Ah, well, fair, I reckon.

Demelza Carne:
What do you ask him for? He ain't no farmer. Might as well ask a pickle in a barrel as ask him.

Demelza Carne:
[Sarcastically to Ross about rum] Do you think one bottle will be enough, sir, or shall I get another?

Ross Poldark:
[Referring to the magistrates] Savages! They think because they're done up in their finery. they're almighty civilized people, but they're savages and worse. They treat their animals better than they treat their laborers. One day the knives will be out, and then God help them.

Elizabeth Poldark:
And whose side will you be found on, Ross?

Ross Poldark:
Not on the side of the gentry; you may be sure of that. I despair of my own class sometimes.

Demelza Carne:
[to Ross] I'm to be punished because I got above myself. I should have been like Margaret, your lady of pleasure in Truro and asked for money this mornin', and that would have been fine. You'd have thought nothing of it.

Tom Carne:
[Speaking about emelza] She's mighty fortunate to find her old father wed to as saintly a woman as ever lived and a good cook besides.

Mrs. Carne:
[laughing] Go on with you, Tom Carne. You'd flatter a waistcoat off a bee.

Elizabeth Poldark:
You said once there would come a time when I wanted you as much as you wanted me and said it would be my salvation. Is this my salvation, Ross?

Ross Poldark:
[Nodding] And mine too.

Ross Poldark:
You've led a very full life while you were away.

Demelza Carne:
I haven't hid myself under a barrel if that's what you mean.

Ross Poldark:
[Speaking of Prudy] She loves work the way the devil loves holy water.

Mrs. Teague:
Oh, Captain Poldark, we was just speaking of your adventures in the Americas. Is it true that the savages there take more than one wife?

Ross Poldark:
To which savages do you refer, Mum, the red ones or the white ones?

Ross Poldark:
I want to see Cornwall prosper, not act as a slave to the rest of England.

Ross Poldark:
Will you come to a meeting about the future of mining in Cornwall?

Francis Poldark:
Future? What future?

[last lines]

Keren Daniel:
[looking at Enys' possessions] They say you can tell a man by the things he owns.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
Do they?

Mrs. Teague:
[Cattily referring to Demelza] They do say, Sir Hugh, that a monkey dressed in silk is still a monkey.

Capt. Blamey:
[after George rides off] You do not care for Mr. Warleggan?

Verity Poldark:
Is it apparent?

Capt. Blamey:
To me, but then I have made rather a close study of yo. Why do you dislike him?

Verity Poldark:
I have o specific reason, but I think I'm I'm apprehensive of people who continually smile.

Margaret:
[Approacing Francis after he makes conspicuous eye contact with her] Francis, how are you?

Francis Poldark:
Margaret, I must see you.

Margaret:
Well, here I am!

Francis Poldark:
[Referring to a proposed sexual encounter] No, no, no, no, you know what I mean.

Margaret:
Why, no, Francis, I don't think I do.

Francis Poldark:
Please, not so loud.

Margaret:
I'm a respectable married lady nowadays.

Francis Poldark:
[Mockingly] What, you respectable? [laughs derisively]

Margaret:
Too respectable to be seen with a drunken banker like you.

Francis Poldark:
Margaret... I'm sorry.

Margaret:
What is it you want to say to me, Francis?

Francis Poldark:
Margaret, you and I enjoyed each other's company in the past

Margaret:
Oh, no, my dear!. You might have had. I didn't.

Francis Poldark:
Oh, yes, of course, in your profession, you are obliged to put up with it as long as there is payment.

Margaret:
Francis, I've had a great deal of men coming to tell me their troubles. Yes, I've received a reward for listenin'. Some of them told me before, some of them told me later, but you, dear Francis, you would tell me during, and that is my definition of a bore.

Demelza Poldark:
Keren, you do know there's gossip about you?

Keren Daniel:
Gossip? About me? How exciting!

Demelza Poldark:
[Referring to McNeil] Ross, suppose he suspects?

Ross Poldark:
When you have a mind, you can spin as pretty a yarn as anyone.

Captain Malcolm McNeil:
Daptain, will you allow me to offer you a word of advice?

Ross Poldark:
What is it?

Captain Malcolm McNeil:
Be careful of the law. It's a twisty, cranky old thing, and you may flout it a dozen times, but once it has you in its grip, you'll find it never lets go.

Demelza Poldark:
In gentlefolk society people may not be bothered by such matters. I may have been brought up in the gutter, but, by Heaven, we saw to it that the folk didn't starve.

Constance Bodrugan:
[Disdainfully] Wouldn't know about that... never been in the gutter, my dear.

Ross Poldark:
Francis... Yes, he's behind all of this. Why does he hate us so?

Demelza Poldark:
Because, in God's name, his wife has never stopped loving you.

Nicholas Warleggan:
[Speaking about Poldark] Do you have a case against him?

George Warleggan:
We have three or four good witnesses who'll swear against him.

Nicholas Warleggan:
If they don't, they won't be paid.

George Warleggan:
One's a discharged servant nursing his grudge as you nurse your guineas.

Nicholas Warleggan:
Now, speakin' of that, how mu...

George Warleggan:
Only a guinea or two, Father.

Nicholas Warleggan:
Mmm. I want to see Poldark hang, but I don't want to be bankrupted.

George Warleggan:
You have great faith in hope, Father. Put more faith in cash, and you won't be disappointed.

Francis Poldark:
But at least allow me to wish you well for the trial.

Ross Poldark:
Whatever happens there depends on God and a good lawyer.

Sir Hugh Bodrugan:
[to Demelza, trying to flirt] Let me tempt you to a little partridge, my pigeon.

Francis Poldark:
[Half drunkenly] Are you here for the elections or to see Ross hanged, drawn, and quartered?

George Warleggan:
For the elections as everyone else.

Francis Poldark:
Ah, have you got money invested in the elections as well? My dear George, you've got your dirty little fingers in every pie, haven't you?

George Warleggan:
Francis, I don't...

Francis Poldark:
You know, I doubt there's a profitable pie in the whole of Cornwall that you Warleggan blackbirds aren't comfortably baked in.

Nicholas Warleggan:
What's this?

George Warleggan:
A list of our witnesses bought and paid for.

Nicholas Warleggan:
Eight? How much did they cost?

George Warleggan:
[Slighly exasperated] You can't have people hanged for nothing, Father!

George Warleggan:
It was the will of God that he was born on St. Vaentine's Day. He shall be Valentine.

Nicholas Warleggan:
Valentine? There has been no such name in the family.

George Warleggan:
There has been not one such as my son in any family,

Nicholas Warleggan:
Does Elizabeth like it?

George Warleggan:
She will when I tell her. Ours is a union of the old gentry and the new. We need a new name.

Nicholas Warleggan:
You won't get away from Warleggan.

George Warleggan:
I shall never wish to. It is too respected and feared.

Nicholas Warleggan:
Fear can be bad for business.

George Warleggan:
Respect and fear are one.

Agatha Poldark:
There be one thing amiss with your little son, George Warleggan. Good seldom comes to a child born under a black moon. I only knew two, and they both came to bad ends.

Demelza Poldark:
[to Ross] Damn their eyes! Since when have you cared what fools say about you?

George Warleggan:
[to Elizabeth] Education demands discipline as well as instruction.

Monk Adderley:
[to George] Strikes me, muh dear, that you have everything a reasonable man could possibly want.

Demelza Poldark:
[Coming across Ross chopping down George's fence] What are you doin'?

Ross Poldark:
George has no right to fence this land. It's been a right of way for centuries. He puts fences around everything!

Demelza Poldark:
Legally he can, I suppose.

Ross Poldark:
Legally? What does that mean?

Demelza Poldark:
Oh, Ross it's not good you're so bitter at the moment, is it? You'd do better knockin' down the barriers between us than George's fences.

Rev. Osborne Whitworth:
[sarcastically referring to his now celibate marriage] Very well, Morwenna, see if you can tempt me with some of your... cold chicken.

Nicholas Warleggan:
I know you have certain moves afoot against Prescott's Bank.

George Warleggan:
Moves that we cannot make until that old fool Pearce expires. For a man who's been expected to meet his maker at any time during the past six weeks, he's showing a remarkable facility for holding off the appointment.

Monk Adderley:
I swear I have never refused a duel but once, muh dear. That was when my father called me out.

Caroline Enys:
Your father challenged you?

Monk Adderley:
I'd taken a fancy to a lady who turned out to be his mistress. He called for pistols.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
[Entering] I was wondering what had become of you.

Caroline Enys:
I was in the library with Captain Adderley. Captain Adderley has been telling me about duelling exploits.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
I've always thought dueling a very extravagant reaction to a quarrel.

Monk Adderley:
There's no other way between gentlemen, muh dear.

Caroline Enys:
At least you declined to fight your father.

Monk Adderley:
Certainly. By no stretch of the imagination could my father be accounted a gentleman.

Demelza Poldark:
[about her sexy new dress] Oh, Caroline, I look like a wanton.

Caroline Enys:
That is exactly what you're supposed to look like. It's the ambition of every respectable lady.

Demelza Poldark:
So what's the ambitions of wantons?

Monk Adderley:
Two things I like best: to fight duels and make love.

Demelza Poldark:
With the same person?

Monk Adderley:
No, but on the same day. One whets the appetite for the other.

Demelza Poldark:
Are you a gentleman?

Monk Adderley:
I trust so.

Demelza Poldark:
Forgive me... I know little of London manners, but is it not a gentleman's duty to withdraw when a lady asks him?

Monk Adderley:
[Using Demelza's words to sound like a double-entendre] Only when the gentleman has already been in.

Ross Poldark:
Well, London;s a big place. I doubt if George's path and mine will cross.

Demelza Poldark:
George fled with his tail between his legs. [She giggles]

Ross Poldark:
It'll soon wag again if I know George.

Ross Poldark:
[Commenting on Demelza's revealing dress] You know, the vexing thing is that good-looking women look good in almost anything... or, should I say, almost nothing.

George Warleggan:
Love and jealousy are part of the same face.

Demelza Poldark:
Being in love is the difference between being alive and not being alive.

Caroline Enys:
Perhaps one aspect of arrogance is refusing to accept what life has ordained for us.

Comte de Sombreuil:
[to Ross] My friend, there is evil in all men. War turns it loose.

Alexander Craig:
[referring to a firing squad] If you're to survive in this country, Captain Poldark, you must steel yourself. You'll see worst sights than that, I promise you.

George Warleggan:
[to Rev. Whitworth] A man who can bargain is worth his price.

Prudie:
[to Lolly after he has lasciviously touched her derri?re] I could have you for breakfast and still be hungry.

Trencrom:
[to the arrogant Comte de Maresi] Monsieur, British seamen are often worked like dogs, but on my ship we treat them as men.

Ross Poldark:
[to his men] Have a good drink, lads, but remember a drunk man is soon a dead man.

Morwenna Chynoweth:
Love has to go on, or it has to stop.

Drake Carne:
You can't stop it no more than you can stop the tides.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
I'm not the same man who went away.

Caroline Penvenen:
I'm not the same woman who saw you go.

George Warleggan:
You let yourself be stampeded by ignorant fears, womanish instincts.

Elizabeth Warleggan:
Yes, George. Instincts to a woman, they are knowledge.

Elizabeth Warleggan:
Why did you not speak?

George Warleggan:
I had nothing to say.

George Warleggan:
Sometimes it is best to keep one's feelings to oneself.

Demelza Poldark:
Well, they say we get the politicians we deserve.

George Warleggan:
[to Ross] Damn you and Goddamn your family!

Lord Devoran:
Gentlemen! This does not become either of you!

Ross Poldark:
[Deadpanned] We do it all the time.

Dr. Dwight Enys:
[Ross laughs upon hearing that George Warleggan has been elected to Parliament] Oh, for pity's sake, Ross. I'd sought to anticipate your reaction in many ways, but laughter was not amongst them.

Ross Poldark:
Well, when the Burgesses roar like laboring elephants, only to produce a mouse like George, what would you have me do but laugh?

Ross Poldark:
[to Elizabeth] If the truth were known, there never was a premature birth in Cornwall... especially in Cornwall.

Emma Tregirls:
[about Sam while Drake is shoeing a horse] I come to you because there is no one other to talk to.

Drake Carne:
Do you love'em?

Emma Tregirls:
I do not know what love do mean, but I can't be free the way I used to be.

Drake Carne:
How's that?

Emma Tregirls:
People do say I'm a whore. What is a whore? A woman tha does sell her body. I never sold nothing to no one. I'm not so loose as folks say, but what I've done I don't regret.

Drake Carne:
Well then, what trouble you?

Emma Tregirls:
Since I've seen him, since we've talked, I've lost the pleasure of things. That's the trouble of it. I wish to God I'd never met him.

Sir Francis Bassett:
[Speakinng of the feud between the Warleggans and the Poldarks] You may tell him from me one should not wear soiled linen where it may be seen.

Demelza Poldark:
One should not wear soiled linen at all, Sir Francis.

Drake Carne:
Turn the other cheek - that's what Sam would do.

Ross Poldark:
Then Sam's more fool than you.

Drake Carne:
Well, then, Christ be a fool too for 'twas his advice.

Ross Poldark:
[Frustrated] Oh, God spare me from the Carnes!

George Warleggan:
Do not forget that we leave for London in the morning.

Elizabeth Warleggan:
For London? If what I just heard is true, I would rather go to Hell first.

George Warleggan:
[Entering the room] If you are here on the business I suppose, then let me tell you it is useless to appal to me.

Ross Poldark:
That I believe. Compassion was never your strongest point.