Queen of the Desert (2015)

Jenny Agutter: Florance Bell

Quotes 

• Hugh Bell : You were only 5 years, and you were already reading voraciously. And someone stupidly showed you Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbook.

  Gertrude Bell : I remember the one with the parachute!

  Florance Bell : Who ever would need a parachute?

  Gertrude Bell : Everyone. Everyone needs a parachute.

• Florance Bell : You will not scare the young men with intelligence.

  Gertrude Bell : How do I do that? I can't play dumb.

  Florance Bell : Just listen to what they have to say, and smile.

  Gertrude Bell : That will be hard.

  Florance Bell : Gertrude...

• Frank Lascelles : Florence, stop that moody brooding.

  Florence Lascelles : [sobbing]  Oh, father...

  Florance Bell : Frank...

  Frank Lascelles : Please don't Frank, Frank me.

  Florance Bell : She is a girl

  Frank Lascelles : My dinner table is a no-cry zone.

  Florance Bell : I'm sorry I gave birth to a daughter. You wanted a boy, obviously.

  Frank Lascelles : Absolutely not. You could have born me a dromedary and I wouldn't have minded. Look, darling. There is a good side about tears. If you cry a lot, you need to pee much less.

  Florence Lascelles : [runs away sobbing]