Inspector Arthur Steed Quotes in Suffragette (2015)

Maud Watts: We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only language men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing else left!

Inspector Arthur Steed: And there's nothing left but to stop you.

Maud Watts: What you gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You might lose your life before this is over.

Maud Watts: We will win.

Inspector Arthur Steed: Don't bother arresting them. Let their husbands deal with them.

Maud Watts: They lied to us!

Inspector Arthur Steed: They didn't lie. They promised nothing, they gave nothing.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You know, there was a housekeeper on her way back when the bomb went off. She forgot her gloves. If she was two minutes later - what would that have done for your cause? Violence doesn't discern! It takes the innocent and the guilty! What gives you the right to put that woman's life at risk?

Maud Watts: What gave you the right - to stand in the middle of a riot and watch women beaten and do nothing? You're a hypocrite.

Inspector Arthur Steed: I uphold the law.

Maud Watts: The law means nothing to me - I've had no say in making the law.

Inspector Arthur Steed: Look at me.

Maud Watts: He deserved it. If I told you...

Inspector Arthur Steed: And do you think anyone listens to a girl like you? That anyone cares? They don't. You're nothing in the world. I grew up with girls like you, Maud. People who sacrifice life for revenge and a cause. I know you. And so do they. They know how to draw on girls like you. Girls without money or prospects who want things to be better. They primp and the preen and they fluff you and they tell you - you are the foot soldiers of the cause. But, you're only fodder - for a battle none of you can win.

Inspector Arthur Steed: [Reviewing surveillance photos] Now, who's this here?

Police Detective and Developer: Watts, Maud Watts.

Inspector Arthur Steed: I'm offering you a lifeline. Take it. Before its too late.

Inspector Arthur Steed: You women cleaned yourselves up well. Couldn't find a scrap of dynamite on any of you.

Maud Watts: Then why am I here?