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Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins, Olga Hellsing, Thomas Douglas, Amy Manson, Ryan Wichert, John Keogh, Niklas Kohrt

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

Bio-drama directed by Pablo Larraín. Set at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England during the 1991 Christmas holidays, Spencer (2021) centers on the later years of the marriage of Diana Spencer (Kristen Stewart), Princess of Wales and Charles (Jack Farthing), Prince of Wales, when Diana decides to leave her marriage to Charles.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'Here, there is only one tense. There is no future. The past and the present are the same thing.' - Diana (Spencer) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Princess Anne: Is she here yet?
Major Alistar Gregory: Not yet, Ma’am, no.
Princess Anne: Then she’s late. And he is early.
Major Alistar Gregory: And yet she is late.


 

Darren: What the bloody hell are you doing here, Diana? Sorry, I mean, your Royal Highness.
Diana: I’m lost.


 

Darren: Why are you driving yourself?
Diana: Well, cars don’t drive on their own.


 

Diana: Will they kill me, do you think?


 

Darren: Say there was a big tractor broken down or something, eh? Say you got lost. Anything.
Diana: It’s too late for trying broken tractors on them.


 

Diana: I don’t usually do the getting weighed thing. I’m half jewellery, anyway. That’s what I always say. I’m not though. It’s a joke.
Major Alistar Gregory: Ma’am. Her Majesty herself just a second ago sat on these scales. And she was very insistent that everyone joins in.


 

Diana: I’m always catching up. Always.


 

Diana: [referring to Harry] Who gave you this big, hilarious coat?
Major Alistar Gregory: It’s from the storeroom, Ma’am. His Royal Highness kept saying he was cold.
Diana: Instead of turning up the heating, they’ve dressed you up like Winston Churchill.


 

Footman: Your Royal Highness. The family are all gathered in the drawing room for the sandwiches. They are waiting.
Diana: The sandwiches. The sandwiches. The holy sandwiches. Good. To the sandwiches.


 

Diana: I’ve left a coat in my car. I want you to clean it, sew it up, whatever it needs.
Maggie: A coat from where, Ma’am?
Diana: Ancient history.
Maggie: Whose ancient history?
Diana: Spencer.


 

Diana: You know at school you do tenses? There’s the past, the present, future.
William: Right.
Diana: Well here, there is only one tense. There is no future. The past and the present are the same thing.


 

William: Do you like them getting cross with you?
Diana: Yes, terribly.
William: Mummy, what’s happened?
Diana: It’s Christmas. Everything waits until after Christmas.


 

Diana: I’m told it’s all set. You know? All set. As if everything’s already happened.

 

'There's never a decision to make. There's only what must happen.' - Diana (Spencer) Click To Tweet

 

Diana: Papa, didn’t you say that we Spencers were distantly related to Anne Boleyn? Yes, I read all about her. They even wrote a poem. “She married the King of England. And the King chopped off her head. Because he met another woman, and wanted her to be Queen instead.”


 

Diana: [referring to her dress] It doesn’t fit in with my mood. It should be black. Black, to contrast the pearls. Not only did I rescue it from a scarecrow, I’m talking to it. All rumors of my disintegration confirmed.


 

Diana: You know, the dust in this house almost certainly contains the dead skin of every person who’s ever stayed in it. This was once Queen Victoria’s room. So it will have her skin floating in the air. She wore black for forty years after her husband died. That’s love, isn’t it?


 

Diana: I’ve put on weight.
Maggie: No, you’ve lost weight. There’s up or down. It’s not an issue of debate.


 

Diana: It will be fine. Good. You’ll be in the world, in some pub. Laughing. And I will be in a field full of f***ing landmines.
Maggie: So stand very still, and smile a lot.

 

'I'm a magnet for madness. Other people's madness.' - - Diana (Spencer) Click To Tweet

 

Maggie: In this house, everyone can hear everything.
Diana: Yes, even your thoughts.


 

Maggie: [to Diana] They can’t change. You have to change.


 

Maggie:  Don’t see conspiracy everywhere. Don’t behave the way the say you behave. You make it easy for them.
Diana: Easy for them to do what? Well, say it.


 

Maggie: Then only remember you’re beautiful. Don’t let that go.
Diana: Beauty is useless. Beauty is clothing.

 

'Oh, death rock me to sleep. Bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary, guiltless ghost, out of my careful breast.' - Diana, peom by Anne Boleyn (Spencer) Click To Tweet

 

Major Alistar Gregory: I was an officer. In a regiment called the Black Watch.
Diana: And that’s what you do. You watch.


 

Major Alistar Gregory: Mostly I’m here because of the press. It was felt that we needed to be on guard this year because of all the silly attention that your Royal Highness is attracting.
Diana: Yes, I’m a magnet for madness. Other people’s madness.


 

Major Alistar Gregory: [referring to the press] Their lenses are terribly powerful these days, Ma’am.
Diana: Their lenses are more like microscopes, actually. And I am the insect in the dish. You see, they’re pulling my wings and my legs off. One by one. Making notes on how I react. “Oh, she really does make a fuss this one, doesn’t she? She’s not like Anne Boleyn, who offered her head to the tweezers with such grace.”


 

William: Mummy, you’re freezing.
Diana: I tried to escape. Got captured.


 

William: Major William to Soldier Diana. Tell the Major what’s happened to make you so sad.
Diana: Sir. Don’t know what you mean, Sir.
William: I want the truth, Soldier.
Diana: Sir. The past, Sir.
William: I think it’s the present, Soldier.
Harry: I think it’s in the future.


 

William: My perfect, perfect Christmas, Sir, is not following the rules and doing whatever you want.
Harry: Eating with your hands!
William: Not showing up. What would that be like?
Diana: That would be a miracle.

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Harry: Do you want to be king, Soldier?
William: I have no choice. Do you want to be the queen, Soldier?
Diana: I’ll be your mum. That’s my job.


 

Charles: [to Diana] The chickens laid the eggs, the fishermen caught the fish, all these little bees made the honey. They all made such an effort to bring you breakfast. Please, do them the courtesy of not regurgitating it all into a lavatory bowl before the church bells even ring.


 

Diana: [reading poem by Anne Boleyn] “Oh, death rock me to sleep. Bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary, guiltless ghost, out of my careful breast.”


 

Charles: You sure you weren’t late yesterday because you were delayed by someone?
Diana: Someone?
Charles: I just thought that someone might have delayed you.
Diana: No. Sometimes you get delayed by someone. No one says anything. It’s perfectly acceptable for you to be delayed by someone.


 

Diana: I wanted to go home.
Charles: It’s boarded up.
Diana: Yes, but I wish it would be unboarded. But if I wish it aloud, it means it definitely won’t happen.
Charles: You talk like a baby who isn’t being spoilt enough.


 

Charles: The thing is, Diana, there has to be two of you. There’s two of me, there’s two of Father, two of everyone. There’s the real one, and the one they take pictures of.


 

Charles: But, you know, you have to be able to make your body do things you hate.
Diana: That you hate?
Charles: That you hate.
Diana: That you hate?
Charles: Yes. For the good of the country.
Diana: Of the country?
Charles: Yes, the people. Because they don’t want us to be people. That’s how it is. I’m sorry, I thought you knew.


 

Charles: Yes, everyone here hears everything. They just don’t always tell you what they’ve heard.


 

The Queen: [to Diana] They take a lot of photographs of you, don’t they? The only portrait that really matters is the one they put on the ten pound note. When they take that one, you understand all you are, my dear, is currency.


 

Darren: [to Diana] Everything you say to any member of staff here becomes currency. Do you understand? It becomes currency in these rooms.


 

Diana: I’m prepared for my future as a face on a coin to be passed from hand to hand.
Darren: No. You don’t even think that.


 

Darren: Some things are best not said out loud. Stories of ghosts, cutting off of heads, and any odd thing that you might say, they get repeated here.
Diana: But if I don’t say it out loud, they read it on my face. They can all see into me.


 

Darren: [to Diana] Usually when they sit at these tables and talk, they’re laughing. At all the oddness, and all the scandals. But with you, they do not laugh. They’re gentle with you. And they’re kind. And they are worried. They want you to survive. As the person you were when you first came here ten years ago.


 

Major Alistar Gregory: I asked myself, who do we soldiers die for? Then I remembered my oath. We all make an oath of loyalty to the Crown. It’s not the human beings, you see? But it’s the oath you chose to believe. Their faults, their weaknesses, that’s not what you think about when you’re in an alley in the Falls Road. You think only about your oath. And what that means.
Diana: I don’t want anyone to die for me. And I hope your friend’s wild horse was never tamed.


 

Maggie: [to Diana] Hold on. Fight them. Be beautiful. You are your own weapon.


 

Major Alistar Gregory: If the princess wants to go home, who are we to stand in her way? If the constables report anything, tell them to let her be. That is all she wants. For us all to just let her be.


 

Maggie: They asked me back. They said they needed someone to talk to you.
Diana: Who is “they”?
Maggie: The Prince of Wales.
Diana: That was good of him.
Maggie: He’s not all bad. None of them are.


 

Maggie: They know everything.
Diana: They don’t. They don’t know that Anne Boleyn saved my life last night.


 

Diana: I’ve been imagining how they’ll write about me in a thousand years. If you’re Royal, the more time that passes, the fewer words they use to describe you. William the Conqueror. Elizabeth the Virgin. Diana… If I ever do become Queen, what will I be? Insane?


 

Diana: He said that you told someone that you thought I was cracking up. It’s okay. But did you say it?
Maggie: Before I answer that question, Ma’am, for what it’s worth, I’ve never told you this, and it probably means you’ll have to fire me, but, well actually, I’m in love with you. Yes, I mean in that way. Completely. So, I suppose the one word I’d use to describe you would be shocked. Diana, the Shocked.


 

Maggie: [to Diana] What you need is love. Love, shocks, and laughter. Plenty of it.


 

Diana: Oh, Maggie, it’s all just a bit of fun, isn’t it? Men. Husbands. Sex. Mistresses. Deceit. Succession. It’s currency. That’s all we are. I like nice things that are simple. Ordinary. But things that are real. You know, I really like things that are quite middle-class, unfashionable. I love Les Mis. I love Phantom of the Opera. I love fast food. I feel sorry for pheasants. There’s no hope for me. Not with them.


 

William: [as she’s driving them away] Where are we going?
Diana: Home!


 

Harry: Where are we going to eat?
William: Somewhere!
Harry: Do you know?
Diana: Trust me!


 

KFC Employee: [at KFC drive-thru] Can I take your order?
Diana: Three times chicken. Three times fries. Two colas and an orange juice, please.
KFC Employee: And what name is it?
Diana: Spencer.

 


 

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