The Favourite

The Favourite is a 2018 film about the behind-the-scenes politics between two cousins jockeying to be court favourites during the reign of Queen Anne in the early 18th century.
 * Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.

Queen Anne

 * Some wounds do not close; I have many such.


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


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


 * I like when she puts her tongue in me.


 * Oh it is fun to be queen sometimes!

Lady Sarah

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


 * There are limits to what one can give.


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


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


 * Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun.

Abigail Hill

 * As it turns out, I'm capable of much unpleasantness.
 * I'm on my side. Always.

Dialogue

 * 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.


 * 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!


 * 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.


 * 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!


 * 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.


 * 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: [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.
 * [Abigail snorts dismissively]


 * 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!


 * 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.
 * [silence and dead stares from Lady Sarah]
 * 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?


 * 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.


 * Abigail: You should lie down.
 * Queen Anne: You shall speak when asked to! I feel dizzy, I need to hold on to something.
 * [she grabs Abigail's hair]

Cast

 * Olivia Colman – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
 * Emma Stone – Abigail Hill
 * Rachel Weisz – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
 * Nicholas Hoult – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
 * Joe Alwyn – Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham
 * Mark Gatiss – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
 * James Smith – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
 * Jenny Rainsford – Mae