The Constant Gardener (2005)

Rachel Weisz: Tessa Quayle

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• Tessa Quayle : I thought you spies knew everything.

  Tim Donohue : Only God knows everything. He works for Mossad.

• Justin Quayle : [Tessa tells Justin to slow down, wanting to drive a woman, her baby, and her brother who are walking 40 kilometers back to his home]  We can't involve ourselves in their lives, Tessa.

  Tessa Quayle : Why.

  Justin Quayle : Be reasonable. There are millions of people, they all need help. It's what the agencies are here for.

  Tessa Quayle : Yeah, but these are three people that WE can help.

• Tessa Quayle : It's an outrageous thing. It's almost if it's -it's a marriage of convenience- and the only thing it's going to produce is dead offspring.

• Tessa Quayle : Sorry, I've just got one question: Whose map is Britain using when it completely ignores the United Nations and decides to invade Iraq?

  Tessa Quayle : Or do you think it's more diplomatic to bend the will of a superpower and politely take part in Vietnam the Sequel?

• Justin Quayle : Your life is your own. That was always our agreement.

  Tessa Quayle : No, no, no. The agreement was, that my *work* was going to be my own. That's what makes me who I am.

• Justin Quayle : Well, ah, I can't speak for Sir Bernard...

  Tessa Quayle : Oh, I thought that was why you were here?

  [lecture audience laughs] 

  Justin Quayle : Well, diplomats have to go where they're sent.

  Tessa Quayle : So do labradors.

  Justin Quayle : [Smiling]  Ouch... Well, I think Mr. Bernard would argue that when peaceful means are exhausted...

  Tessa Quayle : Exhausted? Mr.Quayle, they're not exactly exhausted, they're just lying in the way of the tanks!

• [first lines] 

  Justin Quayle : Oh, thank you Arnold. I... I can manage that. But I still don't see why you couldn't wait a couple of weeks. Why go all the way up to Loki?

  Tessa Quayle : Well, we want to hear Grace Makanga speak, and she won't be coming to Nairobi.