Brief Encounter (1945)

Cyril Raymond: Fred Jesson

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Quotes 

• Fred Jesson : You've been a long way away.

  Laura Jesson : Yes.

  Fred Jesson : Thank you for coming back to me.

• Fred Jesson : [playing the crossword puzzle]  You're a poetry addict. See if you can help me over this. It's Keats. 'When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face / Huge cloudy symbols of a high _______.' Something that's seven letters.

  Laura Jesson : Romance, I think. I'm almost sure it is. 'Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.' It will be in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

  Fred Jesson : No, it's right I'm sure. It fits in with 'delirium' and 'Baluchistan.

• Fred Jesson : [Last word] 

  [to Laura] 

  Fred Jesson : Thank you for coming back to me.

  [Laura weeps in Fred's arms] 

• Fred Jesson : Come and sit by the fire in the library and relax. You may help me with the Times crossword.

  Laura Jesson : You have the most peculiar ideas of relaxation.

• Fred Jesson : Whatever your dream was, it wasn't a very happy one, was it?

• Laura Jesson : Circus or Pantomime?

  Fred Jesson : Neither. We'll thrash them both, lock them in the attic and go to the pictures by ourselves.