Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens and Adelaide Clemens as Valentine Wannop in Parade’s End, based on the novels of Ford Madox Ford.
Christopher Tietjens: I love every field and hedgerow! The land is England, and once it was the foundation of order, before money took over and handed the country over to the swindlers and schemers. Toryism for the pigs trough.
Valentine Wannop: Then what is your Toryism?
Christopher Tietjens: Duty. Duty and service to above and below. Frugality. Keeping your word. Honouring the past. Looking after your people. And beggaring yourself if need be before letting duty go hang. If we’d have stayed out of it I’d have gone to France to fight for France. For agriculture against industrialism. For the 18th Century against the 20th, if you like. I hoped you’d understand?!
Valentine Wannop: Oh, I understand you, you’re as innocent about yourself as a child! You would have thought all the same things in the 18th Century! Christopher Tietjens: Of course I would, and I would’ve been right!