Notes on a Scandal Quotes
[after her affair has become public knowledge, Sheba has moved out of her home and is staying with Barbara]
Barbara Covett: [voiceover] This last month has been the most delicious time of my life. Of course we have had our ups and downs. The pressure is intense when two women share their lives. But, oh, but what marvellous intensity it is! Circumstances are not always ideal. The swinish press, the stringent bail terms, meetings with lawyers and so on. But all things considered, we're coping admirably. In fact, gold stars abundant. The cuckold permits her to see their children once a week. Thee are usually tears and fits of teenage tantrums, too. In time she'll recognise she's just not the mothering kind, and then Barbara will be there to comfort her. Nurse, beloved friend and wise counsel.
Barbara Covett: [voiceover] This last month has been the most delicious time of my life. Of course we have had our ups and downs. The pressure is intense when two women share their lives. But, oh, but what marvellous intensity it is! Circumstances are not always ideal. The swinish press, the stringent bail terms, meetings with lawyers and so on. But all things considered, we're coping admirably. In fact, gold stars abundant. The cuckold permits her to see their children once a week. Thee are usually tears and fits of teenage tantrums, too. In time she'll recognise she's just not the mothering kind, and then Barbara will be there to comfort her. Nurse, beloved friend and wise counsel.
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Sheba Hart: This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. I've been a decent wife, a dutiful mother coping with Ben. This voice inside me kept saying "why shouldn't you be bad, why shouldn't you transgress? I mean, you've earned the right."
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Barbara Covett: The day we met... it had already begun?
Sheba Hart: [pause] Yes.
Barbara Covett: Had you had any further relations that day?
Sheba Hart: We went to the art room.
Barbara Covett: [sarcastically] Well I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac. I was trying to help you.
Sheba Hart: [pause] Yes.
Barbara Covett: Had you had any further relations that day?
Sheba Hart: We went to the art room.
Barbara Covett: [sarcastically] Well I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac. I was trying to help you.
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Barbara Covett: The day we met... it had already begun?
Sheba Hart: [pause] Yes.
Barbara Covett: Had you had any further relations that day?
Sheba Hart: We went to the art room.
Barbara Covett: [sarcastically] Well I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac. I was trying to help you.
Sheba Hart: [pause] Yes.
Barbara Covett: Had you had any further relations that day?
Sheba Hart: We went to the art room.
Barbara Covett: [sarcastically] Well I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac. I was trying to help you.
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Steven Connolly: [not realizing he's speaking to Barbara, who has snatched and answered Sheba's mobile phone] Where are ya? I've been dreamin' about your hot, sweet cunt all morning'!
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[Barbara demands that Sheba must come with her to see her cat put down. Richard tells her to get back in the car so they can go see their son in his school play]
Sheba Hart: [to Richard] Give me a minute, will you? I can handle this.
Barbara Covett: Oh, I'm to be "handled", am I? Like toxic waste. You see me on sufference. I'm an imposition to be tolerated.
Sheba Hart: [to Richard] Give me a minute, will you? I can handle this.
Barbara Covett: Oh, I'm to be "handled", am I? Like toxic waste. You see me on sufference. I'm an imposition to be tolerated.
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