The Remains of the Day (1993) Poster

(1993)

Emma Thompson: Miss Kenton

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  • Miss Kenton : [teasing]  Why won't you show me your book?

    Stevens : This is my private time. You're invading it.

    Miss Kenton : Oh, is that so?

    Stevens : Yes.

    Miss Kenton : I'm invading your private time, am I?

    Stevens : Yes.

  • Miss Kenton : Why? Why, Mr. Stevens, why do you always have to hide what you feel?

  • Miss Kenton : Look at it! Is that or is it not the wrong Chinaman?

    Stevens : Miss Kenton, I'm very busy. I am surprised that you have nothing better to do than stand around all day...

    Miss Kenton : Mr. Stevens, look at that Chinaman and tell me the truth!

    Stevens : Miss Kenton, I would ask you to keep your voice down. What would the other servants think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about... Chinamen?

    Miss Kenton : And I would ask you, Mr. Stevens, to turn around and look at the Chinaman.

  • [after telling Stevens she intends to accept Benn's marriage proposal] 

    Miss Kenton : Mister Stevens! Am I to take it that after all the years I have been in this house you have nothing else to say to me?

    Stevens : You have my warmest congratulations.

  • Miss Kenton : I am a coward. I'm frightened of leaving and that's the truth. All I see out in the world is loneliness and it frightens me. That's all my high principals are worth, Mr. Stevens. I'm ashamed of myself.

    Stevens : Miss Kenton, you mean a great deal to this house. You're extremely important to this house. Miss Kenton.

    Miss Kenton : Am I?

  • Miss Kenton : People always cheer when they turn the lights on in the evening. Every time.

    Stevens : I wonder why?

    Miss Kenton : They do say, that for a great many people the evening's the best part of the day. The part they most look forward to.

  • Miss Kenton : [about a new housemaid]  You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed.

    [teasing] 

    Miss Kenton : Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and doesn't trust himself?

    Stevens : [with the faintest trace of a smile]  You know what I'm doing, Miss Kenton? I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere as you chatter away.

    Miss Kenton : ...then why is that guilty smile still on your face?

    Stevens : Oh it's not a guilty smile. I'm simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk.

    Miss Kenton : It *is* a guilty smile. You can hardly bear to look at her. That's why you didn't want to take her on, she's too pretty.

    Stevens : Well, you must be right Miss Kenton, you always are.

  • Stevens : I regard this room as my private place of work and I - I prefer to keep distractions to a minimum.

    Miss Kenton : Would you call flowers a distraction, then, Mr. Stevens?

    Stevens : I appreciate your kindness, Miss Kenton, but I prefer to keep things as they are.

  • Miss Kenton : There are times when I think what a terrible mistake I've made with my life.

    Stevens : Yes. I'm sure we all have these thoughts, from time to time.

  • Miss Kenton : I so often think of the good old days when I was the housekeeper at Darlington Hall. It was certainly hard work and I've certainly known butlers easier to please than our Mr. Stevens; but, I remember those years as among the happiest of my life.

  • Miss Kenton : I don't know what my future is. Ever since Katherine, my daughter, got married last year, my life has been empty. The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But, I would like to be useful again.

  • Miss Kenton : You're saying that Elsa and Irma are being dismissed because they're Jewish?

    Stevens : His Lordship has made his decision. There is nothing for you and I to discuss.

    Miss Kenton : You realize if those girls have no work, they could be sent back to Germany.

    Stevens : It is out of our hands.

    Miss Kenton : I'm telling you, Mr. Stevens, if you dismiss my girls tomorrow, it will be *wrong*. A sin! As any sin ever was one.

    Stevens : Miss Kenton, there are many things you and I don't understand in this world of today; whereas, his Lordship, understands fully and has studied the larger issues at stake concerning, say, the nature of the Jewry.

  • Miss Kenton : Are you shy about your book?

    Stevens : No.

    Miss Kenton : What is it? Is it racy?

    Stevens : Racy?

    Miss Kenton : Are you reading a racy book?

    Stevens : Do you think racy books are to be found on his Lordship's shelves?

    Miss Kenton : How do I know?

  • Benn : I'm glad to be out of it, I can tell you. There was something about Sir Geoffery and his blackshirts. They gave me the creeps.

    Miss Kenton : Mr. Stevens always says its up to us to run the house and leave the rest where it belongs. You don't agree, Mr. Benn?

    Benn : No.

    Miss Kenton : Neither do I, really.

    Benn : Well, if I don't like something, I want to be in the position to say, "stuff it." If you will pardon the expression, Miss Kenton. But, I suppose I'm not a real professional, like Mr. Stevens.

    Miss Kenton : It's Mr. Stevens whole life.

  • Miss Kenton : My mistake, no doubt. One of many.

  • Miss Kenton : What's in that book? Come on, let me see. Or, are you protecting me? Is that what you're doing? Would I be shocked? Would it ruin my character. Let me see it.

  • Miss Kenton : Do you think it might be a fantasy? A fantasy on my part? Do to my inexperience?

  • Miss Kenton : [Miss Kenton has just pried Mr. Stevens' book from his hands.]  Well. Oh, dear. It's not scandalous at all. It's just a sentimental old love story.

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