Well, that's when you should've stopped it.
Sheba Hart I did! I told him I wouldn't teach him any more. But he refused to accept it, he just kept coming back. It began to feel like our secret, and well, secrets can be... seductive.
2nd most-quoted character in Notes on a Scandal (2006): in 7 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Barbara Covett (6), Richard Hart (2)
This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. I've been a decent wife, a dutiful mother coping with Ben. This voice inside me kept saying "why shouldn't you be bad, why shouldn't you transgress? I mean, you've earned the right."
Scenes with Sheba Hart
6 scenes Sheba Hart 
Excuse me. Could one of you tell me what's going on? Is this some kind of coven?
I can explain perfectly. Would you like me to?
Sheba Hart No. It's just that Barbara's had some very bad news about her cat.
My condolences. Poor, poor pussy. Can I have my wife back, please?
I don't like your tone.
Why is she always here? What kind of **** spell has she cast on you?
Sheba Hart What you say about me, about Richard - you're not fit to shine his shoes. And Ben, and Polly, that I'd be happier without them. Why did you do it? [slaps Barbara] Because I didn't help you collect your cat? [slaps Barbara again] You've cost me my family!
No, no, take some responsibility! I gave you EXACTLY what you wanted! You'd still be stuck in that marriage without me.
Sheba Hart What?
You can't accept it yet, but...
Sheba Hart You think I wanted to be here with you?
You need me, I'm your friend!
Sheba Hart You put me in prison, I could get TWO years!
They'll fly by! I'll visit you every week! We've so much life to live together!
Sheba Hart You think this is a love affair? A relationship? What, sticky gold stars, and - and a strand of my hair? And a receipt from Pizza Express? It's a flat in the Archway Road and you think you're Virginia frigging Woolf! And where did you get my hair? Did you pluck it from the bath with some special **** tweezers?
You know it's rude to read a person's diary, it's private!
Sheba Hart We're not companions! We're not friends! You don't even like me!
That's not true, I only have tender feelings for you, only love!
Sheba Hart You're barking, **** mad. You don't know how to love. You have never, your whole life. Me, Jennifer Dodd. You're nothing but waste and disappointment! You bitter old virgin. You're lonely for a reason. They loathed you at school, all of them. I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you're a **** vampire! So what is it, Bar? You want to roll around the floor like lovers? You want to **** me, Barbara?
Please don't diminish our...
Sheba Hart Our WHAT? What?
Give it back. I know you! Selfish and vain, you think you have a divine right! You don't belong in the world, you belong here! You big baby!
Sheba Hart When you started teaching, didn't you want to give them a real education to help overcome... the poverty of their backgrounds?
Oh yes, of course. But one soon learns that teaching is crowd control. We're a branch of the social services.
Sue Hodge Console yourself with the gems. That's when it's satisfying. Then you can make a real difference.
The rest is just cattle-prod and pray.
Sheba Hart I hadn't been pursued like this for years... I knew it was wrong, and immoral, and completely ridiculous, but, I don't know. I just allowed it to happen.
The boy is fifteen!
Sheba Hart But he's quite mature for his age!
[voiceover]
By the time I took my seat in the Gods, the opera was well into its final act.
You're his teacher!
Sheba Hart And you were mine! I'm not justifying. I'm not trying to justify it...
You are so full of shit! It's totally different. You were twenty!
Sheba Hart He's sixteen in May. He's not some innocent...
Of course he's innocent! He's **** fifteen! Are you insane? If you meant to destroy us, why not do it with an adult? That's the convention, it's worked for centuries!
Sheba Hart It wasn't about us, it...
Why?
Sheba Hart I ju-ju-just wanted him...
WHY?
Sheba Hart I don't know!
