Bess Foster Quotes in The Duchess (2008)

Bess Foster: [watching children] Up and down, up and down. Why can't we recover like that?

Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: It's too far to fall now.

Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: There are limits to the sacrifices one makes for one's children.

Bess Foster: No, there aren't. No limits whatsoever.

Charles Grey: [taking in the large crowd arounf Georgina] Is it always like this?

Bess Foster: Well, as they say, the Duke of Devonshire must be the only man in England not in love with his wife.

Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire: What's that on your neck? Bess?

Bess Foster: It's not illegal for a man to beat his wife with a stick unless the stick is thicker than his thumb.