Covington Cross (TV Series)
Pilot (1992)
Cherie Lunghi: Lady Elizabeth
Quotes
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Lady Elizabeth : You don't like me very much, do you?
Eleanor Grey : It doesn't matter what I like, does it?
Lady Elizabeth : What do you like, Eleanor?
Eleanor Grey : The crossbow. It kills quickly, cleanly, and with great effect. Does that shock you, Lady Elizabeth?
Lady Elizabeth : Do you wish that it would?
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Eleanor Grey : Why do you want my father? Aren't three dead husbands enough?
[Lady Elizabeth slaps Eleanor and Eleanor slaps Lady Elizabeth in return]
Lady Elizabeth : It's always good when women understand each other.
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Lady Elizabeth : Thomas, we're not perfect. Not father, not daughter, not friends who love you.
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Eleanor Grey : Why should you help me?
Lady Elizabeth : Because I've know what it is to have love keep missing my grasp - and because I'm a woman.
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Lady Elizabeth : Rant and wail until these old walls shake - it won't change the truth. You're sending your daughter into bondage.
Sir Thomas Grey : I gave my word.
Lady Elizabeth : And how I hope that word comforts you when you see in the hatred in the eyes that once worshipped you.