A Room with a View (1985)

Daniel Day-Lewis: Cecil Vyse

Photos 

Quotes 

• George Emerson : My father says there is only one perfect view, and that's the view of the sky over our heads.

  Cecil Vyse : I expect your father has been reading Dante.

• Cecil Vyse : You must forgive me if I say stupid things. My brain has gone to pieces.

• Cecil Vyse : You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you're right not to, but... it would help a little, hurt a little less, if I knew why.

  Lucy Honeychurch : Because you're the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.

  [Cecil looks taken aback and hurt] 

  Lucy Honeychurch : Well, I don't mean exactly that, but you will go on asking questions!

• Cecil Vyse : I have no profession. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that as long as I am no trouble to anyone, I have the right to do as I like. It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence.

• Cecil Vyse : Temper, Lucy. Temper, please!

• [Cecil reads off Eleanor Lavish's Novel] 

  Cecil Vyse : A far off the towers of Florence and she wandered as though in a dream through the wavering golden sea of barley touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved he came to her. Isn't it immortal? There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as formal lovers use, no eloquence was his, nor did he suffer from the lack of it. He simply unfolded her in his manly arms

• Cecil Vyse : So you *do* love me, little thing.

• Cecil Vyse : What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?

• Sir Harry Otway : The train service has improved so!

  Cecil Vyse : I always travel by brougham.