Grand Dame Quotes in Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

[last lines]

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.

Grand Dame: [voiceover] 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.

Grand Dame: I find your collection of folk tales quite brilliant, actually.

Jacob Grimm: Thank you.

Grand Dame: But I must say, I was terribly disturbed when I read your version of the little cinder girl.

Jacob Grimm: Well, there are those who swear that Perrault's telling with its Fairy Godmother and um...

[laughs]

Jacob Grimm: Magic pumpkins would be closer to the truth.

Wilhelm Grimm: Some claim the shoe was made of fur. Others insist it was glass. Well, I guess we'll never know.

Jacob Grimm: Forgive me, Your Majesty, might I inquire about the painting? She's really quite, um... extraordinary.

Grand Dame: Her name was Danielle de Barbarac.

[Reaches inside the box the footman has brought to her]

Grand Dame: And this... was her "glass" slipper.

[the Grimm Brothers look at each other in shock]

Grand Dame: Perhaps you will allow me to set the record straight?

Wilhelm Grimm: Then it's true, the story?

Grand Dame: 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...