Poor Things (2023) quotes

25 total quotes

Bella Baxter – Emma Stone
Dr. Godwin Baxter – Willem Dafoe
Duncan Wedderburn – Mark Ruffalo
Max McCandles – Ramy Youssef

View Quote Bella Baxter: I am rested, let us go again.
Duncan Wedderburn: Again? Unfortunately, even I have my limits. Men cannot keep coming back for more.
Bella Baxter: It is a physiological problem? A weakness in men.
Duncan Wedderburn: Well... perhaps so.

View Quote Dr. Godwin Baxter: I can't let you go.
Bella Baxter: If you do not, Bella shall turn rotten with hate.

View Quote Duncan Wedderburn: I will **** throw you overboard!
Bella Baxter: So you wish to marry me, or kill me? Is that the proposal?

View Quote Duncan Wedderburn: You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I will not lie, I’ve been with many.
Bella Baxter: Missus Prim said you were wolf, with scent of a hundred women on you.
Duncan Wedderburn: She undersells it, okay. Oysters, have you had them before?
Bella Baxter: I have not.

View Quote Duncan Wedderburn: [After she spits out her food] Bella!
Bella Baxter: Why keep it in my mouth if it is revolting?
Kitty: I've said that before to Gerald. [She laughs]

View Quote Felicity: Belle. Whore.

View Quote Madame Swiney: A woman plotting her course to freedom. How delightful.

View Quote Madame Swiney: We must work. We must make money. But more than that Bella, we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours.
Bella Baxter: I want that.
Madame Swiney: Now go and **** someone and bring me ten francs.

View Quote Max McCandles: [About Bella] My, what a very pretty ****.

View Quote [after she kisses Max McCandless] We will need less of your tongue in the future. But overall, most agreeable.

View Quote [on the wailing infant] I must go punch that baby.

View Quote [to Duncan, about sex] Why do people not just do this all the time?

View Quote I am Bella Baxter. I am a flawed, experimenting person. I seek outings and adventures. Bella's so much to discover. And there is a world to enjoy, circumnavigate. It is the goal of all to improve, advance, progress, grow.

View Quote I am finding being alive fascinating.

View Quote I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence. It is most charming.