Restoration (1995)

Robert Downey Jr.: Merivel

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Quotes 

• Robert Merivel : I have done the one thing forbidden by the king. I have fallen in love with my wife.

• Katharine : You know, in Ireland a man with a horse, a cart and a book he knows how to read is the catch of the county.

  Robert Merivel : Well, perhaps when we have made fire of the cart and eaten the horse and wiped our asses with the book, you'll become better acquainted with what you have caught.

• Robert Merivel : I must restrain my farts and do something altogether more productive.

• Merivel : A most lavish affair! Who is to be married?

  King : Celia Clemence.

  Merivel : I understood she was your mistress!

  King : Then you understood right, Merivel... Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in Kew - the better to sport with her unobserved... For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular...

• Robert Merivel : My first patient was a frog, I cured him of jumping. Now I can cure people of breathing.

• Robert Merivel : We need money.

  Katharine : There is money inside my skirt!

  Robert Merivel : [to roadside hack]  She is simple. We are doctor and patient.

  [clarifying] 

  Robert Merivel : I am the doctor.

• Robert Merivel : Fear is our greatest enemy, and hope is our greatest weapon against the disease.

• [last lines] 

  Robert Merivel : [voiceover]  The fire in its fury has consumed the great plague. Misfortune may leave behind unlooked-for blessings... none dearer than you, my little Margaret. I will return to the city, to my work as a doctor, and the rebuilding of the King's Hospital. The stars that once confused me seem now to light a path that is clear, that I have in truth been traveling for all these days. Where I met what came, and left behind my sorrows. And I am traveling still.