Guilford Quotes in Lady Jane (1986)

Guilford: Go on, ask me.

Jane: What?

Guilford: What I want.

Jane: What do you want?

Guilford: Oh, I think you know. I want a world where men are not branded or sent into slavery because they can't grow the food they need to eat. Go on.

Jane: Well,

[smashes goblet]

Jane: it's done.

Guilford: I thought, you see I wondered: Now that we're together, how on earth are we going to spend the days?

Guilford: On the night I was informed I was to be transformed into---untold bliss---I had attended several taverns, witnessed a bear-baiting and was actually located in the Suffolk stews, sampling the pleasures of a lady of the night.

Guilford: Tell me, did you see his chest?

Jane: Yes, it was marked.

Guilford: No, it wasn't. It was branded. A mark burnt into him with a red-hot iron.

Guilford: God's teeth!

Guilford: The brain is a brittle organ, Jane. The slightest pressure and it snaps. It's not wrapped up in a little heart.

Jane: You gave them all that money and they just threw it back at you?

Guilford: Money? Do you know what's happened to the value of money?

Jane: No.

[Guilford slides Jane a coin]

Guilford: What's that?

Jane: A penny.

Guilford: No, it isn't. It's a shilling.

Jane: It can't be, shillings are made of silver.

Guilford: Should be, used to be. But not now.

Guilford: So then we will.

Jane: Yes, we will.

Guilford: We'll fly.

Jane: We'll fly.

Guilford: Away, beyond their reach.

Jane: So far...

Guilford: Their touch can't tarnish us, and at last, we will be...

Jane: Nothing...

Guilford: Nobody...

Jane: Each other's.

Guilford: Only this time, forever.