Fanny Hill (TV serial) Quotes

Fanny Hill is a Costume drama that first aired in 2007 on BBC Four. Fanny Hill ended in 2007.

Fanny Hill was on for 2 episodes. It features Sally Head, Nigel Marchant, and Eleanor Moran as producer, and James Aspinall as head of cinematography.

Fanny Hill is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Fanny Hill is 106 minutes long. Fanny Hill is produced by BBC.

The cast includes: Philip Jackson as Mr. Crofts, Alison Steadman as Mrs. Brown, Carli Norris as Phoebe, Samantha Bond as Mrs. Coles, Rebecca Night as Fanny Hill, and Emma Stansfield as Esther Davies.

Fanny Hill Quotes

Samantha Bond as Mrs. Coles

• (Samantha Bond) "The young man I have in mind for you is as sweet and fresh as a little lamb. He has been privately tutored in the country; hardly laid eyes on a girl. But now his father has decided it's time he "completed his education". He wants a young, fresh country girl for his son's first time. Do you think you could play the part?"

• (Unnamed) "That young girl look perfect. And I'm sure she knows -- what goes with what."
• (Samantha Bond) "But they are both so bashful. I hardly know how they will manage. Perhaps if you or I or both of us were to stay here with them and give them a little help and guidance as to what goes where. Fanny is such an innocent."
• (Unnamed) "Well the notion does have a certain -- piquancy. But I think we can safely let nature take its course."

• (Samantha Bond) "Be gentle with my little Fanny, sir."

Rebecca Night as Fanny Hill

• (Rebecca Night) "I'm ashamed to say my body betrayed me. And so I learned the extremes of sensual delight need have nothing to do with true love. A cruel lesson for a girl with a romantic disposition, but I think many women may have made that bitter-sweet discovery for themselves. Now I was truly learning to be a woman of pleasure."

• (Rebecca Night) "I saw, with wonder and surprise, not the play-thing of a boy nor the weapon of a man, but a positive maypole that would have done credit to a young giant. Such a breadth of animated ivory. In short, it stood an object of terror and delight, and with no little trepidation I guided the furious battering-ram into my -- It is so hard to find a dainty way of putting it, and I never cared for coarse language. I guided it into my palpitating and pleasure-thirsty channel."

• (Rebecca Night) "I must tell you, I have no skills in the millinery, ma'am. I can do plain sewing and a little embroidery, but nothing fancy."
• (Emma Stansfield) "Oh, you're still such a simpleton, Fanny. Don't you know you're sitting on your livelihood, same as I am."

• (Rebecca Night) "As to the moral of my story? Must one always have morals? It seems to me life is very complicated and we must all get through it the best we can. Virtue is always preferable to vice, but we can't always choose, can we?"

• (Unnamed) "Is it time to climb on your back now, Fanny?"
• (Rebecca Night) "I think we may do it face-to-face."
• (Unnamed) "How shall we do that?"
• (Rebecca Night) "Like this. Suppose I lift my leg like this, then put my other one --"
• (Unnamed) "Come on, my son."
• (Unnamed) "It's in. It's in."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, well done. Well done."

• (Rebecca Night) "It had all been too much for Mr Norbert. It was a strange and eerie sensation to be lying there with the dart of a dead man lodged inside of me, but nonetheless I was proud to have played my part in enabling him to die a happy man. Whether his soul went to heaven or hell, I leave for others to determine."

Alison Steadman as Mrs. Brown

• (Alison Steadman) "We're going to leave you a while with Mr. Crofts, Fanny. You be sure to entertain him prettily. Can you do that for me, Fanny?"

Philip Jackson as Mr. Crofts

• (Philip Jackson) "Very pretty. Very pretty. Come here, my dear. So you're fresh from the country, are you, Fanny?"
• (Alison Steadman) "And as innocent as the day she was born. That's guaranteed, warranted, signed and sealed, sir. The genuine article."
• (Alison Steadman) "And down below I guarantee you'll find she's as tight as the Chatsworth lock on the national safe deposit."

Carli Norris as Phoebe

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