Ever After Quotes

Ever After is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Ever After completed its run in 1970.

It features Mireille Soria, and Tracey Trench as producer, George Fenton in charge of musical score, and Andrew Dunn (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Ever After is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Ever After is 121 minutes long. Ever After is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Al Ashton as Cargomaster, Walter Sparrow as Maurice, Patrick Godfrey as Leonardo da Vinci, Judy Parfitt as Queen Marie, Anjelica Huston as Rodmilla, Jeanne Moreau as Grand Dame, Ricki Cuttell as Young Gustave, Matyelok Gibbs as Louise, Timothy West as King Francis, Anjelica Huston as Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent, Elizabeth Earl as Marguerite, Alex Pooley as Jacqueline, Andy Henderson as Jacob Grimm, Joerg Stadler as Wilhelm Grimm, Lee Ingleby as Gustav, Peter Gunn as Captain Laurent, Kate Lansbury as Paulette, and Susan Field as Laundry Supervisor.

Ever After Quotes

Elizabeth Earl as Marguerite

• (Danielle) "These are my mother's."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "Yes, and she's dead."

• (Elizabeth Earl) "Why don't you sleep with the pigs, cindersoot, if you insist on smelling like one."

• (Elizabeth Earl) "I was not shrill, I was resonant. A courtier knows the difference."
• (Anjelica Huston) "I very much doubt your style of resonance would be permitted in the royal court."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "I'm not going to the Royal Court, am I, Mother? No one is, except some Spanish pig they have the nerve to call a princess."

• (Henry) "You're looking well, Marguerite."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "You're welcome to look, Your Highness."

• (Elizabeth Earl) "I said I wanted four-minute eggs. Not four one-minute eggs, and where in GOD'S NAME is our bread?"

Patrick Godfrey as Leonardo da Vinci

• (Henry) "Do you really think there is only one perfect mate?"
• (Patrick Godfrey) "As a matter of fact, I do."
• (Henry) "Well then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do find them, are they really the one for you or do you only think they are? And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or, or she does, but you're too distracted to notice?"
• (Patrick Godfrey) "You learn to pay attention."
• (Henry) "Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?"

• (Henry) "You told me it was a matter of life or death."
• (Patrick Godfrey) "A woman always is, sire."

• (Henry) "What do you know? You build flying machines and you walk on water, and yet you know nothing about life."
• (Patrick Godfrey) "I know that a life without love is no life at all."
• (Henry) "And love without trust? What of that?"

• (Danielle) "Signore, my name is Danielle de Barbarac, and I am but a servant."
• (Patrick Godfrey) "Yes, and I'm the bastard son of a peasant. What does that have to do with anything?"

• (Danielle) "A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?"
• (Patrick Godfrey) "Then I shall have to make you wings."

• (Henry) "I have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations."
• (Patrick Godfrey) "Horses***."

• (Danielle) "A bird may love a fish, Signore, but where would they live?"
• (Patrick Godfrey) "Then I shall just have to build you wings."

• (Patrick Godfrey) "I shall leave walking on water to the Son of God. Fortunately I tripped over an angel."

• (Patrick Godfrey) "Come, let's see these paintings of yours."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Now?"
• (Patrick Godfrey) "When you're as old as I am, son, now is all you've got."

Lee Ingleby as Gustav

• (Henry) "You know her. Please, I must find her. Where is she staying?"
• (Lee Ingleby) "Uh, I believe, your Highness, that she is staying with a cousin. The, uh, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent."
• (Henry) "Hm. That does present a problem."
• (Lee Ingleby) "But, I do know that she is there. Alone. By herself. At this very moment."
• (Henry) "Excellent."
• (Henry) "Nice painting."
• (Danielle) "Gustav, you horrible little snipe."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Did you hear? He likes my work."
• (Danielle) "And he is heading for my house."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Then I suggest you run."

• (Danielle) "He is heading towards my house."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Then I suggest you run."

• (Lee Ingleby) "And I suppose if you saw him again, you'd simply --"
• (Danielle) "I would walk right up to him and say, 'Your Highness, my family is your family, please take them away.'"
• (Lee Ingleby) "Good. Because here's your big chance, he's headed this way."

• (Lee Ingleby) "Have you lost your marbles? Do you know what the punishment is -- for servants who dress above their station? Five days in the stocks."
• (Danielle) "You'd do the same for me, admit it."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Me? Pretend to be a courtier? Prancing round like some nobleman when I've never been to court. And neither have you."
• (Danielle) "Then I won't recongnised. Hand me that gown so I can be on my way."
• (Lee Ingleby) "They'll never buy it. You are too sweet."
• (Danielle) "And they'll never buy a servant with twenty gold francs either. I am Maurice's only hope."
• (Lee Ingleby) "And the Baroness, what did you tell her?"
• (Danielle) "I am picking wildflowers. Gustav, can you still see her?"
• (Lee Ingleby) "They're buying a brooch."
• (Danielle) "Unbelievable. She ignores the manor, blames us for her debt -- and still pretends to have money to burn. Don't you dare laugh. I'm coming out."
• (Danielle) "The shoes are too big."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Nobody will be looking at your feet."
• (Danielle) "Yards of fabric and I still feel naked."
• (Lee Ingleby) "If you're going to be a noblewoman -- you must play the part."
• (Lee Ingleby) "You look down to no-one."
• (Danielle) "I am just a servant in a nice dress."
• (Lee Ingleby) "Come."
• (Lee Ingleby) "We have to do something with that hair."

Timothy West as King Francis

• (Henry) "Mother, Father, I want to build a university, with the largest library on the continent, where anyone can study, no matter their station."
• (Timothy West) "All right -- Who are you -- and what have you done with my son?"
• (Henry) "Oh, and I want to invite the gypsies to the ball."

• (Timothy West) "And I thought I had problems."

• (Timothy West) "Baroness. Did you or did you not; lie to Her Majesty, the Queen of France?"
• (Judy Parfitt) "Choose your words wisely, madame, for they may be your last."
• (Anjelica Huston) "A woman would do practically anything for the love of a daughter, Your Majesties. Perhaps I did get -- a little carried away."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "Mother, what have you done? Your Majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both and I am ashamed to call her family."
• (Anjelica Huston) "How dare you turn on me, you little ingrate?"
• (Elizabeth Earl) "You see? You see what I have to put up with?"
• (Timothy West) "Silence, both of you. Good Lord."
• (Timothy West) "Are they always like this?"
• (Alex Pooley) "Worse, Your Majesty."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Jacqueline, darling, I should hate to think you had anything to do with this."
• (Alex Pooley) "Of course not, Mother. I'm only here for the food."

• (Timothy West) "Off -- with his head --"

Alex Pooley as Jacqueline

• (Alex Pooley) "Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Where is that girl?"
• (Elizabeth Earl) "Probably off catching rabbits with her teeth."

• (Alex Pooley) "Marguerite gets to do everything."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "Oh, don't be daft, Jacqueline, the Queen doesn't even know you exist."
• (Anjelica Huston) "What Marguerite does is for all of us, my dear. We are counting on you to help her get ready."
• (Alex Pooley) "Lovely. Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle."

• (Alex Pooley) "I wanted to be the peacock."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Honestly, Jacqueline, the horse is one of God's noblest creatures."
• (Alex Pooley) "Oh, well why don't I just pull the carriage while I'm at it?"
• (Anjelica Huston) "If you think it will get us there any faster --"

• (Alex Pooley) "Oh. Now, you really brought this upon yourself, you know. Hmm? First with breakfast, and then that horrid display downstairs."
• (Danielle) "I don't know what's come over me."
• (Alex Pooley) "Of course, I shall never forget the way Marguerite's feet went up over her head like that."
• (Alex Pooley) "She should not have said that about your mother."
• (Danielle) "Thank you."

Matyelok Gibbs as Louise

• (Matyelok Gibbs) "Why, that was pure genius."
• (Patrick Godfrey) "Yes. I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door."

Judy Parfitt as Queen Marie

• (Henry) "How could I have been so blind? There I was, pouring my royal heart out to her, and she was simply trying to bid me farewell."
• (Judy Parfitt) "It is a strong woman who can keep her wits about her, with you trying to steal her heart."
• (Henry) "Yes, and what a clumsy thief I turned out to be."

• (Judy Parfitt) "Baroness de Ghent, you are forthwith stripped of your title, and you and your horrible daughter are to be shipped to the Americas on the first available boat -- Unless by some miracle, someone here will speak for you."
• (Anjelica Huston) "There seem to be quite a few people out of town --"
• (Danielle) "I will speak for her."
• (Danielle) "She is, after all, my stepmother."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Your Highness."
• (Henry) "Marguerite, I don't believe you've met -- my wife."
• (Danielle) "I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life."
• (Anjelica Huston) "And how long might that be?"
• (Danielle) "All I ask, Your Majesties -- is that you show her the same courtesy that she has bestowed upon me."

• (Judy Parfitt) "Good heavens, child, are you all right?"
• (Elizabeth Earl) "There was a bee."

• (Judy Parfitt) "Choose wisely, Henry. Divorce is only something they do in England."

• (Judy Parfitt) "Any choice is better than Spain."

Jeanne Moreau as Grand Dame

• (Danielle) "You, sir, are supposed to be charming."
• (Henry) "And we, princess, are supposed to live happily ever after."
• (Danielle) "Says who?"
• (Henry) "You know, I don't know."
• (Jeanne Moreau) "My great-great-grandmother's portrait hung in the university up until the Revolution. By then, the truth of their romance had been reduced to a simple fairy tale. And, while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they lived."

• (Jeanne Moreau) "I find your collection of folk tales quite brilliant, actually."
• (Andy Henderson) "Thank you."
• (Jeanne Moreau) "But I must say, I was terribly disturbed when I read your version of the little cinder girl."
• (Andy Henderson) "Well, there are those who swear that Perrault's telling with its Fairy Godmother and um --"
• (Andy Henderson) "Magic pumpkins would be closer to the truth."
• (Joerg Stadler) "Some claim the shoe was made of fur. Others insist it was glass. Well, I guess we'll never know."
• (Andy Henderson) "Forgive me, Your Majesty, might I inquire about the painting? She's really quite, um -- extraordinary."
• (Jeanne Moreau) "Her name was Danielle de Barbarac."
• (Jeanne Moreau) "And this -- was her "glass" slipper."
• (Jeanne Moreau) "Perhaps you will allow me to set the record straight?"
• (Joerg Stadler) "Then it's true, the story?"
• (Jeanne Moreau) "Yes. Quite. Now then, what is that phrase you use? Oh, yes. Once upon a time, there lived a young girl who loved her father very much --"

Walter Sparrow as Maurice

• (Walter Sparrow) "I thought I was looking at your mother."

Anjelica Huston as Rodmilla

• (Anjelica Huston) "Go -- catch a chicken."

• (Anjelica Huston) "Marguerite, precious, what do I always say about tone?"
• (Alex Pooley) "A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the -- gentle hum of a whisper in the wind."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Jacqueline, dear, do not speak unless you can improve the silence."

• (Anjelica Huston) "Jacqueline, go and boil some water."
• (Alex Pooley) "Me? Boil water? -- Oh I knew it. I just knew it."

• (Anjelica Huston) "Some people read because they cannot think for themselves."

• (Anjelica Huston) "Marguerite."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "What?"
• (Anjelica Huston) "Well, you heard the woman."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "So did you."
• (Anjelica Huston) "Yes, but I'm management."
• (Elizabeth Earl) "Like hell you are. You're just the same as me, a big NOBODY."
• (Anjelica Huston) "How dare you speak to me that way? I'm of noble blood."
• (Susan Field) "And you are getting on my nerves."
• (Susan Field) "Now get to work."

• (Anjelica Huston) "Darling, nothing is final 'til you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates."

Peter Gunn as Captain Laurent

• (Peter Gunn) "Prince Henry suffers from an arranged marriage, signore, among other things --"

Al Ashton as Cargomaster

• (Danielle) "I wish to address the issue of this gentleman. He is my servant, and I am here to pay the debt against him."
• (Al Ashton) "You're too late, he's bought and paid for."
• (Danielle) "I can pay you twenty gold francs."
• (Al Ashton) "Madame, you can have me for twenty gold francs. Now drive on."
• (Danielle) "I demand you release him at once, or I shall take this matter to the King."
• (Al Ashton) "The King's the one who sold him. He's now the property of Cartier."
• (Danielle) "He is not property at all, you ill-mannered tub of guts. Do you honestly think it right to chain people like chattel? I demand you release him at once."
• (Al Ashton) "Get outta my way."
• (Henry) "You dare raise your voice to a lady, sir?"
• (Al Ashton) "Your Highness. F-forgive me, Sire. I meant no disrespect. It's just, uh -- I'm following orders here. It's my job to take these criminals and thieves to the coast."
• (Danielle) "A servant is not a thief, your Highness, and those who are cannot help themselves."
• (Henry) "Really. Well then by all means, enlighten us."
• (Danielle) "If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
• (Henry) "Well, there you have it. Release him."
• (Al Ashton) "But Sire --."
• (Henry) "I said, release him."
• (Al Ashton) "Yes, Sire."
• (Walter Sparrow) "I thought I was looking at your mother."
• (Danielle) "Meet me at the bridge."
• (Danielle) "Prepare the horses, we will leave at once."
• (Danielle) "I thank you, your Highness."

Ricki Cuttell as Young Gustave

• (Ricki Cuttell) "You look like a girl."
• (Young Danielle) "That's what I am, half-wit."
• (Ricki Cuttell) "Yeah, but today you look it."
• (Young Danielle) "Boy or girl, I can still whip you."

Kate Lansbury as Paulette

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