Livia and Augustus in “Poison is Queen”

[to Augustus pruning a plant] If you prune any more of that there'll be nothing left.

What are you now, an expert on gardening? Is that something else you've become lately?

I'm only telling you. The gardners all complained you spoiled them last year.

And whose garden is this?

You're not the only one who uses it!

How long have we been married?

Don't you remember?

Fifty years, and in all that time you've never been able to tell one plant from another. And now, suddenly, you know all there is to know about pruning. Wonderful!

I think your brain's going soft, you know that? Nobody can talk to you any more.

Anyone can talk to me at any time, except you. You don't talk to people. You bully them.

This conversation is becoming ridiculous.

Wrong, this conversation was ridiculous from the start.