Vanity Fair Quotes
Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp (Witherspoon) defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.
Becky Sharp: Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.
Rawdon Crawley: I should. I traveled it with you.
Becky Sharp: Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.
Rawdon Crawley: Then that has been your misfortune.
Rawdon Crawley: [pauses]
Rawdon Crawley: Goodbye Rebecca.
[leaves]
Becky Sharp: [screams in despair]
Rawdon Crawley: I should. I traveled it with you.
Becky Sharp: Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.
Rawdon Crawley: Then that has been your misfortune.
Rawdon Crawley: [pauses]
Rawdon Crawley: Goodbye Rebecca.
[leaves]
Becky Sharp: [screams in despair]
Amelia Sedley: [the clock strikes midnight at the Waterloo ball] George, shouldn't we rest now? There may be a battle in the morning.
George Osborne: Go to bed if you're tired, my dear. Sweet dreams.
[Dances with Becky]
George Osborne: Are you tired, you wicked woman?
Becky Sharp: [laughing] I'm not a child, Captain Osborne. Not like your brainless little Amelia. Ambition doesn't tire. Evil never sleeps.
George Osborne: Go to bed if you're tired, my dear. Sweet dreams.
[Dances with Becky]
George Osborne: Are you tired, you wicked woman?
Becky Sharp: [laughing] I'm not a child, Captain Osborne. Not like your brainless little Amelia. Ambition doesn't tire. Evil never sleeps.
George Osborne: [as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?
Becky Sharp: My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.
George Osborne: You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.
Becky Sharp: Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.
George Osborne: How very obliging of you.
Becky Sharp: I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?
[George remains silent and stern]
Becky Sharp: Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.
Becky Sharp: My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.
George Osborne: You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.
Becky Sharp: Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.
George Osborne: How very obliging of you.
Becky Sharp: I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?
[George remains silent and stern]
Becky Sharp: Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.
