Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)
Joyce Barbour: Harriet
Quotes
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Mary : Just because hundreds of years ago somebody knocked somebody else off a horse, George Bucket isn't good enough to speak to us. Well, he's good enough to fight for us. And when he comes back, if he still wants me to, I intend to marry him. And no-one's going to stop me!
Lord Chaunduyt : I think she really means it.
Harriet : There was a time when age entitled one to a little respect.
Lord Chaunduyt : I think the young people are beginning to see through that one.
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Lord Chaunduyt : Besides, he's in the Army now.
Harriet : You say that as if the Army were a monastery. From what I hear, it's not at all the same thing.
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Lord Chaunduyt : My dear Harriet, for a Tenant's Ball, one needs two things - money and tenants. We've none of one and very few off the other.
Harriet : Of course there'll be a ball. No "Bouquet" ever became of age without one.
Lord Chaunduyt : No "Bouquet" ever came of age in the middle of a world war.
Harriet : That is not our fault.
Lord Chaunduyt : I wonder.
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Lord Chaunduyt : The telephone!
Harriet : Yes. I paid your account. I was tired of never being able to ring you.
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Harriet : As a member of a titled family...
Mary : Oh, nuts!
Harriet : I beg your pardon.
Mary : All right, only don't let it happen again.
Harriet : This is intolerable. Charles, you sit there stuffing yourself with toast while your child insults me.
Lord Chaunduyt : Now, Harriet. I don't think Mary really meant to...
Mary : Oh, yes I did.
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Harriet : Charles, tell me at once. Who am I? Or what am I?
Lord Chaunduyt : Well, my dear Harriet, for the moment you're one of the old "Bouquets." But it rather looks as though very shortly, you'll be just an old "Bucket."