Fanny Ronalds Quotes in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Fanny Ronalds: Lady Colin is irresistible. She cannot conceive why the Irish are starving when there's lots of good fish in the sea.

Sullivan: She most probably has a point.

Fanny Ronalds: Oh, there's good news from Dublin.

Sullivan: Mm?

Fanny Ronalds: The Churchills are to return to London.

Sullivan: Forgiven, but not forgotten.

Fanny Ronalds: I do hope so. Jenny says Winston is eleven, covered in freckles, and has a total disdain for authority.

Fanny Ronalds: Lady Colin is endeavoring to persuade us to take up smoking. She's writing an article for the Saturday Review. She proposes that nicotine is a gift from the gods, and if men may benefit from its soothing qualities, why then may women not also? My poor daughter now believes that smoking is an extension of the... communion between a woman and her husband.

Sullivan: Will she be smoking a cigarette on her wedding day?

Fanny Ronalds: [laughing] Heaven forfend!

Fanny Ronalds: [to Sullivan] I love "The Mikado." You've put everything you are into it. You light up the world. You can't help it.