'The Dressmaker' Quotes Flashcards
“I’m back, you bastards.”
Tilly Dunnage
“Is that uh, Dior?”
Sergeant Farrat
“Very good, Sergeant Farrat.”
“My design but Dior inspired.”
Tilly
“Myrtle Dunnage”
__ “Tilly”
Sergeant Farrat
Tilly
“What have I done this time?”
Tilly
“Did anyone know you were coming?”
“They’ll know soon enough.”
Sergeant Farrat
Tilly
“Your mother’s a slut, and you’re a bastard.”
Mr Almanac
“I came because, I need you to remember me, mum.”
“I need you to remember, so I can remember.”
“Remember what?”
– “being my daughter.”
“That too”
Tilly
Molly Dunnage
Tilly
“Does he have a lady friend?”
“Well, our Gerts a handsome, capable girl.”
“She knows feedstock, Haberdashery….”
-”Mother!”
Gertrude’s mother
Gert
“A dress can’t change anything!”
“Watch and learn Gert, watch and learn!”
Gert
Tilly
“Go on, make them their dresses. Make them think they’re classy. They’ll still hate you.”
Molly
“I reckon you came home for one of the two things, revenge or…me…”
Teddy McSwiney
“You moved, Tilly! You moved!”
Barney McSwiney
“Look at our youngsters. Ah they make a lovely couple”
“Gert, you look like someone out of a movie.”
Alvin Pratt (Gert’s dad)
William Beaumont
You’ll be familiar with my work soon enough. Evan Pettyman invited me here. Did you think they wouldn’t fight back?”
Una
“Tilly, certain accusations have been made, requiring me by law to make a thorough search of this tea chest.”
“What am I being accused of?”
(delighting in the various fabrics and donning one bolt) “Oh, good lord!”
“This isn’t how I remember you.”
“This isn’t how I remember you either.”
“Well, frankly, this is how I rather you remembered me.”
“Don’t worry, Sergeant, not much chance of me forgetting this.”
Sergeant Farrat
Tilly
Sergeant Farrat
Molly
Tilly
Sergeant Farrat
Molly
“Tilly, the only reason these bastards haven’t run us McSwineys out of town, too, is me dad empties their shthouses and I win ’em the footy. We lose this match, all I’ve got left is the sht.”
“Thank you, Teddy. I know you and Mae have been looking out for Molly.”
“You leaving?”
“No I’m going to change”
“Been looking out for me, have you?”
Teddy
Tilly
Teddy
Tilly
Molly
“Did I commit a murder?”
(laughing) “What?”
“Am I a murderer? Is that why I’m cursed?”
“You don’t remember committing a murder?”
“No.”
“(scoffing) It’s not something you’re likely to forget.”
Tilly
Molly
Tilly
Molly
Tilly
Molly
“G’day. Yer get-up’s distracting the players.”
“Well, I do have an unusual talent for bias cutting.”
“Yeah, listen, Myrtle…”
“I prefer Tilly.”
Teddy
Tilly
Teddy
Tilly
“I think we should run away together, Till.”
Teddy
“Leave them to themselves and fate.”
Teddy
“Well, well, you you can’t just ask someone to run away with you out of the blue.”
Tilly
“A situation has developed and until it’s settled I don’t want you leaving the house.”
Marigold gulps it
“Good girl.”
Evan Pettyman
“Genius!”
Sergreant Farrat
