The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010 TV Movie)

Alan David: Uncle Lister

Quotes 

• Anne Lister : I don't want a husband. I appreciate your efforts in finding me a suitor. I really do but you really don't have to bother.

  Aunt Lister : But Child. Don't you want a husband and little ones and life about the house?

  Anne Lister : I want my independence. I want to keep my name and I want to be proud Lister until the day I die. Like you Both. You are the model, how I wish to live.

  Uncle Lister : Well... As you wish.

  Anne Lister : I shan't be lonely Aunt. I hope to seddle with a female companion.

  Aunt Lister : But who?

  Anne Lister : Someone who suites me. There will be no fortune hunters and the estate will be well cared for.

  Uncle Lister : I trust you, woodland walks are no woodland walks.

  Anne Lister : Thank you uncle.

  Aunt Lister : Well. Uh. I suppose a lady will know what pleases you better than a man.

• Anne Lister : I don't want a husband. I appreciate your efforts in finding me a suitor. I really do but you really don't have to bother.

  Aunt Lister : But Child. Don't you want a husband and little ones and life about the house?

  Anne Lister : I want my independence. I want to keep my name and I want to be proud Lister until the day I die. Like you Both. You are the model, how I wish to live.

  Uncle Lister : Well... As you wish.

  Anne Lister : I shan't be lonely Aunt. I hope to settle with a female companion.

  Aunt Lister : But who?

  Anne Lister : Someone who suites me. There will be no fortune hunters and the estate will be well cared for.

  Uncle Lister : I trust you, woodland walks are no woodland walks.

  Anne Lister : Thank you uncle.

  Aunt Lister : Well. Uh. I suppose a lady will know what pleases you better than a man.

• Anne Lister : [Mr Rawson comes to ask Anne to marry him]  Mr Rawson, how funny you should come. I set myself a course of reading on geology just this morning.

  Uncle Lister : Then I shall leave you two, to... discuss it.

  Christopher Rawson : Miss Lister. I hope your well today.

  Anne Lister : I am. Thank you.

  Christopher Rawson : You look very... Healthy.

  Anne Lister : Sit down Mr. Rawson. Let's talk coal.

  Christopher Rawson : It was your uncle but my mind to come. He made me see how beneficial it might be. Your assets are rich and unexploited.

  Anne Lister : I just realized it. At last.

  Christopher Rawson : Our estates joined each others, if they to become one, we could be influential around these parts. I'd leave you all the time you wanted for your book and similarities and such. Your uncle said you have have a passion for scape gardening, which im happy to indulge. In short Miss Lister, I've come to ask.

  Anne Lister : Eh- eh No... Please don't.

  Christopher Rawson : I've come to ask you to marry me and join our two noble estates into one.

  Anne Lister : Mi-Mr. Rawson... I... I thank you for your interest but I couldn't possibly say yes. There is a certain sentiment that I don't feel for you.

  Christopher Rawson : Love I suppose.

  Anne Lister : I couldn't possible marry without it.

  Christopher Rawson : Oh, you sound like a foolish girl. I'm giving you change to grow up and have a place in society.

  Anne Lister : And I'm gratefully declining.

  Christopher Rawson : You know I came against my better judgement. Polite society cannot conceive of certain practices Miss Lister. But I move in other circles but people point at you. They call you Gentleman Jack. They say you like the ladies, perhaps too much. They say your worse than the a-louses after a few.

  Anne Lister : Well you should count yourself lucky, you were spared such a wife.

  Christopher Rawson : Presume it's all true then.

  Anne Lister : Presume what you wish. Good day.

  Christopher Rawson : I myself think there's more to you than most women.