Poor Things Movie Quotes
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
My father once told me, "Always carve with compassion." He was a fucking idiot, but it's not bad advice.
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Bella Baxter
I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence.
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Bella Baxter
Why keep it in my mouth if it is revolting?
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Max McCandles
[about Bella]
My, what a very pretty retard.
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Swiney
We must work. We must make money. But more than that Bella, we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours.
Bella Baxter
I want that.
Swiney
Now go and fuck someone and bring me ten francs.
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Bella Baxter
This is Martha. She is my new friend who has not been fucked in twenty years! Is that not astonishment? I hope you use your hand between your legs to keep yourself happy?
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[after sex]
Bella Baxter
Why do people not just do this *all* the time?
Duncan Wedderburn
[chuckles]
Well, at the risk of being immodest: You've just been thrice fucked by the very best. It's probable no other man will ever bring you to the raptures I have. I feel bad for you.
Bella Baxter
Well, then it will just be *you* I do furious jumping with.
Bella Baxter
I'm rested. Let us go again.
Duncan Wedderburn
Again? Unfortunately, even I have my limits. Men cannot keep coming back for more.
Bella Baxter
It is a physiological problem? A weakness in men?
Duncan Wedderburn
Mm... well... perhaps so. You'd be advised, if it's not too late, not to fall in love with me. I have very little to offer in the way of constancy. Just adventure.
Bella Baxter
I see.
Duncan Wedderburn
Let us sleep.
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
I'm something of a romantic myself.
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
I have taken five milligrams of heroin through the toes for pain, amphetamines for energy, and cocaine... because I am partial to cocaine.
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Duncan Wedderburn
I will fucking throw you overboard!
Bella Baxter
So you wish to marry me, or kill me? Is that the proposal?
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Bella Baxter
If I know the world I can improve it.
Harry Astley
You can't. This is the real point. Don't accept the lie of religion, socialism, capitalism. We are a fucked species. Know it. Hope is smash-able, realism is not. Protect yourself with the truth.
Bella Baxter
I realize what you are now Harry. Just a broken little boy who cannot bear the pain of the world.
Harry Astley
I suppose so.
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Duncan Wedderburn
It's devil's work at hand! He coughs not air as a normal man, but blood!
Max McCandles
He has cancer, you fucking idiot!
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Bella Baxter
You are troubled?
Duncan Wedderburn
Did he lie with you?
Bella Baxter
No. We were against a wall.
Duncan Wedderburn
Did you furious jump him?
Bella Baxter
No. He just fast-licked my clitoris. I had the heat that needed release, so at my request it was.
[Duncan bashes his head against the bar]
Bella Baxter
You too may tongue-play me. So I'm not understanding this complicated feeling.
Duncan Wedderburn
[Sobs hysterically]
Bella Baxter
Are you now crying?
Bella Baxter
[Bella pats Duncan awkwardly on the back]
What a confusing person you are, Duncan Wedderburn.
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Duncan Wedderburn
Kitty, did you see the new show in London by Wilde? Marvelously witty!
Kitty
I loved it. A handbag!
[Bella spits her food]
Duncan Wedderburn
Bella?
Bella Baxter
What? Why keep it in my mouth, if it is revolting?
Kitty
I have said that before to Gerald. If you catch my drift.
Duncan Wedderburn
You are wicked.
Bella Baxter
Oh, because you mean his penis? Duncan's can sometimes be salty.
Duncan Wedderburn
Good God, Bella.
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[repeated line]
Felicity
Belle. Whore.
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Bella Baxter
My empathy is creeping towards what I would describe... a contemptuous rage.
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Bella Baxter
Your sad face makes me discover angry feelings about you.
Duncan Wedderburn
Right. I have become the very thing I hate. A grasping succubus of a lover. I've pried many of them off me. Now I'm it.
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Duncan Wedderburn
Well at the risk of being immodest, you've just been thrice fucked by the very best. It's probable no other man will ever bring you to the raptures I have. I feel bad for you.
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Bella Baxter
Hello, interesting older lady. I must touch your hair.
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Mrs. Prim
She grabbed my hairy business!
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
I cannot let you go.
Bella Baxter
Kiss me and set me forth. If you do not, Bella's insides shall turn rotten with hate.
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Duncan Wedderburn
Selfish, thoughtless, careless bitch.
Bella Baxter
I am not thoughtless Duncan. More like, it is true my ability to think things through to the logical conclusion is not strong. I did help those suffering people. I have ruined us as you pointed out. But I do believe my actions came from a good place.
Duncan Wedderburn
Shut the fuck up!
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Duncan Wedderburn
You're always reading now, Bella. You're losing some of your adorable way of speaking.
Bella Baxter
I am a changeable feast. As are all of we. Apparently according to Emerson, disagreed with by Harry.
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Bella Baxter
Let us touch each other's genetical pieces.
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Bella Baxter
I will leave at my leisure, but I am flattered by your desire to trap me.
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Bella Baxter
I'm so tired. Or maybe just my spirit is. My soul has been buckled, crumpled, flattened Duncan Wedderburn, by the sights I have seen.
[Bella cries]
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Duncan Wedderburn
Bella!
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Harry Astley
A lot of dead babies.
Harry Astley
How will we do that? When we go down there, they'll quite rightfully rope us, rob us and rape us. And if they were here, and we were there, we'd do the same to them.
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Bella Baxter
A finger up the arse should help things along.
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Duncan Wedderburn
You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Will not lie, I've been with many.
Bella Baxter
Missus Prim said you were wolf, with scent of a hundred women on you.
Duncan Wedderburn
She undersells it. Okay, oysters have you had them before?
Bella Baxter
I have not.
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Duncan Wedderburn
I do not care for polite society. It's fucking boring. It destroys one's soul.
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Swiney
You are an idealist. Like me. How delightful you are. But we must give in to the demands of the world sometimes. Grapple with it. Try to defeat it.
Bella Baxter
So you believe as me?
Swiney
Of course. But some men enjoy that you do not like it.
Bella Baxter
What? That is...
Swiney
Sick. But good business.
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Bella Baxter
Bella not safe with you, I think.
Duncan Wedderburn
You are absolutely, not.
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Bella Baxter
More furious jumping!
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Bella Baxter
We are all on a ship and cannot escape. And there is a world to enjoy, traverse, circumnavigate.
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Bella Baxter
It is the goal of all to improve, advance, progress, grow.
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
I must make my own Gastric Juices. My Father removed my pyloric glands to see what would happen. Turns out we need them!
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Bella Baxter
What was the root of the unhappiness? What drove her off a bridge?
Alfie Blessington
You hated the baby. You called "the monster".
Bella Baxter
I see. I have noticed the lack of maternal instinct.
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Bella Baxter
A love of cruelty? I was not a kind person, it seemed.
Alfie Blessington
Kind? You would never be so dull, Victoria. Appalling idea.
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Bella Baxter
Wouldn't you rather the women chose?
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Duncan Wedderburn
You're whores.
Bella Baxter
We are our own means of production. Go away.
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
To elicit a sexual response from my body would take all the electricity in North London!
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Max McCandles
So, you are not laying with her?
Dr. Godwin Baxter
Spermatic ejaculation can only induce homeostasis in me if accompanied by prolonged stimulation in higher nerve centers whose pressure on the ductless glands changes the chemistry of my blood not for a few spasmodic minutes but for many days.
Max McCandles
What..?
Dr. Godwin Baxter
I am a eunuch and can't fuck her!
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Bella Baxter
I generally charge 30 Francs.
Max McCandles
I think that's a bit low...
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Duncan Wedderburn
I have decided to forgive you. I have booked our berths home. I have told mother to prepare our wedding bed. Did you fuck the guy with hooks for hands? You did. I know. I beat the tar out of that guy.
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Bella Baxter
[She's working as a prostitute. A male client has just arrived]
Madam Swiney, this lineup system... you really expect me to go upstairs with a man even if I find him distasteful... and therefore am sad when I let him furious-jump me?
Swiney
That is the way it is, my darling. Gosh, you look pretty. How it agrees with you to be ravaged.
Bella Baxter
[to the client]
So, would you not prefer it if the women chose, as it would be a sign of enthusiasm toward you? You wouldn't have the vague sense that they're in a state of horror when you jump them.
Swiney
[Madam Swiney and the client speak in French]
Bella is new and may have a mental illness. She doesn't yet understand how things work.
Bella Baxter
As God, my father, says, it is only the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and then that is the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and so it goes until the world is no longer flat, electricity lights the night, and shoes are no longer tied with ribbons.
Toinette
Je suis d'accord. As a socialist, I agree entirely. Magnifique.
Swiney
Toinette, you have such a clever mouth. Monsieur Mersault will enjoy it for free.
[Toinette's smile slowly fades.]
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Duncan Wedderburn
I shall throw her into the Ocean!
Bella Baxter
I dare you!
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Bella Baxter
Madam Swiney, I have examined my situation. I need sex and money. I could take a lover, another Wedderburn who would keep me but may require an awful lot of attention. Or else it's twenty minutes at a time, and the rest of my day is free to study on the world and the improvement of it. Hence, I seek employment at your musty-smelling establishment of good time fornication.
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Bella Baxter
What of the tongue-play you were about to perform? Is that not happening?
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Alfie Blessington
They talk and talk... and yet at some point, there's nothing left but to pull a gun.
Alfie Blessington
'Tis the way with women.
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Bella Baxter
I feel like this conversation has become circular.
Duncan Wedderburn
CUUUUUUNT!
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Hapless Student
What is the purpose of putting it back?
Dr. Godwin Baxter
My amusement!
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Duncan Wedderburn
You'd be advised, if it's not too late, not to fall in love with me. I have very little to offer in the way of constancy. Just adventure.
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Frenchman
[to his bored sons] Et dans le cat-cat!
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Duncan Wedderburn
Martha! She is the problem! I will throw that fucking perfumed bag of flesh overboard.
Bella Baxter
I dare you.
[Duncan storms toward the deck]
Harry Astley
Where are you going?
Duncan Wedderburn
She's going over the side!
Martha von Kurtzroc
Marvellous. I never imagined I'd be murdered. How dramatic!
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
Do not cry into the wound! You'll kill me faster with sepsis.
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Harry Astley
This improvement through philosophy is people trying to run away from the fact that we are all cruel beasts. Born that way. Die that way.
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Alfie Blessington
Baaaa! Baaaa! Baaaa!
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Max McCandles
Sir, where did she come fom?
Dr. Godwin Baxter
I believe your job is collecting data. When I add inane questions to it, I'll let you know.
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Upper Class Woman
Victoria Blessington? I haven't seen you for years.
Bella Baxter
And you still have not. As I'm Bella Baxter, strange feathered lady.
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Alfie Blessington
Does that look stripped to the bone to you?
Butler
I apologise.
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Swiney
You're my favorite!
Bella Baxter
I've heard you say that to the others.
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
Only dead ones for Bella...
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Bella Baxter
Squish! Squish!
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Alfie Blessington
The staff are getting mutinous, I fear an uprising.
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Madame
Ah, the new girl! She may have a mental Illness...
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Alfie's Doctor
Do you just want the clitoral hood?
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
Do you think my father could have branded me on my genitals with hot irons the way he did if he did not put science and progress first?
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Bella Baxter
Is that smell you?
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Duncan Wedderburn
Time for Siesta!
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Duncan Wedderburn
I'll be at the Casino!
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Hapless Student
Buy a suit!
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Dr. Godwin Baxter
We are men of science. This emotionality is unseemly.
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Duncan Wedderburn
There's a woman on fire, look.
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