Lizzie Quotes

  • Lizzie Borden: Men don't have to know things, Bridget. Women do.

  • Bridget Sullivan: What was I to you? I don't know who you are.

    Lizzie Borden: Were you better off before? Is that it?

  • Bridget Sullivan: You're dreaming.

    Bridget Sullivan: You're just dreaming.

    Bridget Sullivan: You don't see it. You can't see it.

    Lizzie Borden: See what?

    Bridget Sullivan: We live in this world,

    Bridget Sullivan: and not another.

    Bridget Sullivan: This one right here.

    Lizzie Borden: I know.

  • Andrew Borden: This attachment you've formed is unhealthy, and it must end.

    Andrew Borden: Please don't force me to put it any more bluntly than that.

    Lizzie Borden: Say exactly what you mean.

    Lizzie Borden: I wanna hear you say it.

    Andrew Borden: You're an abomination, Lizzie.

    Lizzie Borden: And at last, we are on equal footing, father.

  • Abby Borden: It really is difficult to harbor sympathy for someone

    Abby Borden: who will not make even the slightest effort to help herself.

  • Lizzie Borden: Love alters not with brief hours and weeks, but bears it out...

    Lizzie Borden: Let me not to the marriage of true mind's impme... impediments...

  • Lizzie Borden: Have you had schooling?

    Bridget Sullivan: Some.

    Lizzie Borden: How much is some?

    Bridget Sullivan: Couple years.

    Lizzie Borden: Are you afraid?

    Bridget Sullivan: Afraid?

    Bridget Sullivan: Of what?

    Lizzie Borden: Men don't have to know things, Bridget.

    Lizzie Borden: Women do.

  • Marshall Hilliard: To your knowledge, did your father have any enemies?

    Marshall Hilliard: Shall I repeat the question?

    Lizzie Borden: No, I heard you.

    Marshall Hilliard: Please answer.

    Lizzie Borden: This is America, sir.

    Lizzie Borden: Every man with a pulse has enemies.

  • Emma Borden: Andrew Jennings is father's attorney, and he knows nothing of a will.

    John Morse: There must be another attorney. An estate attorney.

    Emma Borden: Well, I find that hard to imagine. You knew father.

    Emma Borden: Probably thought he'd live forever.

    Emma Borden: I suppose that's a mistake we all make now, isn't it?

  • John Morse: I'm going to find that will.

    John Morse: And you're gonna get nothing.

    Lizzie Borden: But I already have it all.

    Lizzie Borden: And money can buy many things, John.

    Lizzie Borden: As you know, a hungry man is capable of anything.