Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)

Brefni O'Rorke: Lord Chaunduyt

Quotes 

• Lord Chaunduyt : Well, our fortunes seem to be on the turn, Bucket. If we go on like this, we'll soon be paying wages again.

  Butler : A refreshing prospect, my Lord.

• 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.

• Lord Chaunduyt : [Giving a public tour of his castle]  In places like this, one is frequently shown a room in which Queen Elizabeth was said to have spent the night. Well, I need hardly tell you that these things would be very difficult to prove. But with regard to this room in which you are now standing, current documents will prove conclusively that this room is one of the very few in which Queen Elizabeth never spent the night.

• Lord Chaunduyt : Now, if you'll pass through that door and look out of the window on your left, you'll see an oak tree in which King Charles may well have hidden after the Battle of Worcester.

• Lord Chaunduyt : Are there any guest rooms that still have ceilings?

  Butler : Only in the old wing, me lord.

  Lord Chaunduyt : Well, I suppose you can get it ready.

  Butler : Yes, me lord. It'll mean turning the owls out of the bath.

  Lord Chaunduyt : Oh, that's a pity. Oh, I doubt if they'd care to stay.

  Butler : No, me lord.

• Pike : Last week he was caught red-handed taking a hare. And now there's some ridiculous legal quibble. And my lawyers say I can't prosecute because the animal was started on your side of the boundary.

  Lord Chaunduyt : Sounds rather like splitting hairs, doesn't it?

  Pike : It's no laughing matter.

• 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.

• 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.

• Lord Chaunduyt : The telephone!

  Harriet : Yes. I paid your account. I was tired of never being able to ring you.

• 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.

• Lord Chaunduyt : My sister-in-law seems to be recovering.

  Butler : Very regrettable.

  Lord Chaunduyt : I rather agree.

• 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."

• Ghost : I ought to get back to the ballroom or Harriet will be annoyed.

  Lord Chaunduyt : You'll never see another bottle like that. See Harriet every day.

  Ghost : Yes, that's just it.