BBC Emma, Episode 1

Rewatched the latest BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma the other day. It's one of my favourite adaptations. The casting is perfect, the costumes are gorgeous and the entire colour palette of the miniseries has me delirious. So, although I have not her skill nor her patience, I decided to take a leaf out of Erin's book and try my hand at some screen capping. My computer is horrible and produces some of the worst screen caps that exist, so steel yourself for some dodgy attempts at colour and quality enhancement on my part.

"Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them...."

"amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into...."

"Where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones."

"Vanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

"Her character depends upon those she is with; but in good hands she will turn out a valuable woman."

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

"He could not see her in a situation of such danger without trying to preserve her. It was his duty."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.'"

"Doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgments, but directed chiefly by her own. The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself...."

"I cannot make speeches, Emma . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."

"the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone."