Young Bess (1953)

Kathleen Byron: Ann Seymour

Quotes 

• Ann Seymour : Don't try to befuddle me by using words beyond my understanding.

  Young Bess : I'm sorry, madam, but they are difficult to avoid.

• Young Bess : Take care, madam, I'm warning you.

  Ann Seymour : Who are you - to warn the Protector's wife?

  Young Bess : My mother's daughter!

• Thomas Seymour : Excellent! Maturity, that's the secret. In wine as in women, my dear Ann.

  Ann Seymour : Thank you, Tom. I thought you liked them so young.

  Thomas Seymour : Not at all! Young wine goes straight to the head.

• Ann Seymour : This is a matter of character.

  Young Bess : What do you know of my character. I knew your mother.

  Ann Seymour : I knew your mother.

  Young Bess : Well, leave my mother out of it, if you please.

  Ann Seymour : I do not please! Like mother, like daughter. And we know what she was.

• Ann Seymour : Sorry, Tom, that we had to separate you from your lady love.

  Thomas Seymour : My dear Ann, if I wanted to have a love affair, what makes you think I should look for it in a nursery.

• Ann Seymour : The Princess Elizabeth, here at Whitehall? Where are they?

  Barnaby : On the lawn, playing shuttlecock.