The Favourite (2018) - Quotes

Abigail: You should lie down.

Queen Anne: You shall speak when asked to! I feel dizzy, I need to hold on to something.

Abigail: [about the war] If your husband dies?

Lady Sarah: Did you not sacrifice your cunt for a fatty German to save your father?

Abigail: Yes.

Lady Sarah: There is always a price to pay. I am prepared to pay it.

Sidney Godolphin: Obviously you have chosen to keep the particulars of your dismissal from me. I shall leave a gap in the conversation for you to remedy that.

Sidney Godolphin: I do not know of women and their feelings, but I know they nurse their hurts like wailing newborns.

Lady Sarah: Godolphin, I have a surge of desire to see your nose broken. Your point?

Lady Sarah: Abigail has done this. She does not love you.

Queen Anne: Because how could anyone? She wants nothing from me. Unlike you.

Lady Sarah: She wants nothing from you. And yet somehow she is a lady. With 2000 a year, and Harley sits on your knee most nights.

Queen Anne: I wish you could love me as she does!

Lady Sarah: You wish me to lie to you? "Oh you look like an angel fallen from heaven, your majesty." No. Sometimes, you look like a badger. And you can rely on me to tell you.

Queen Anne: Why?

Lady Sarah: Because I will not lie! That is love!

Abigail: [after Sarah slaps Abigail twice in the face] Obviously you still have some anger issues. I will allow it this once.

Lady Sarah: Congratulations on your wedding night.

Robert Harley: I wish to make a statement to the queen.

Lady Sarah: State it to me. I love a comedy. Is there cake?

Abigail: My dear friend and cousin, how good to see you've returned from...

Lady Sarah: Hell. I'm sure you shall pass through it one day.

Abigail: You're so beautiful.

Queen Anne: Stop it, you mock me.

Abigail: I do not. If I were a man, I would ravish you!

Lady Sarah: None for the queen.

Queen Anne: What?

Lady Sarah: Well you cannot have hot chocolate. Your stomach, the sugar inflames it.

Queen Anne: Abigail, hand me that cup!

Lady Sarah: [casually] Do not.

Abigail: I'm sorry I do not know what to do.

Lady Sarah: Oh fine, give it to her. And you can get a bucket and mop for the aftermath.

Lady Sarah: Anne, you are too sensitive.

Queen Anne: And you are too mean and uncaring, some days.

Lady Sarah: Some days I'm quite lovely though. Let's think on them!

Queen Anne: [after her fall] They were all staring, weren't they? I can tell even if I can't see. And I heard the word fat! Fat and ugly!

Lady Sarah: Anne, no one but me would dare and I did not.

Abigail Hill: I'm on my side. Always.

Abigail Hill: As it turns out, I'm capable of much unpleasantness.

Lady Sarah: Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun.

Lady Sarah: Mrs. Meg, your cream bill is outrageous. Are you bathing in it to help your hemorrhoids?

Lady Sarah: [to Abigail] If you do not go, I will start kicking you and I will not stop.

Lady Sarah: There are limits to what one can give.

Lady Sarah: [to Robert Harley] Your mascara is running. If you want to fix yourself we can discuss this later.

Queen Anne: Oh it is fun to be queen sometimes!

Queen Anne: I like when she puts her tongue in me.

Queen Anne: [gets up out of her chair; yells out of the window; music ends as violinists leave the garden; conductor stops and bows to the queen] STOP! ENOUGH! STOP! BEGONE! I COMMAND IT! LEAVE!! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!

Queen Anne: [the servant looks at her] Did you just look at me? Did you!? Look at me. Look at me! HOW DARE YOU!? CLOSE YOUR EYES!

Queen Anne: Some wounds do not close; I have many such.