The Dark Corner (1946)

Clifton Webb: Hardy Cathcart

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Quotes 

• Hardy Cathcart : How I detest the dawn. The grass always looks like it's been left out all night.

• Hardy Cathcart : [whispering]  Tell him you need two hundred dollars to leave town.

  Stauffer, alias Fred Foss : [on the phone to Galt]  I need two yards, powder money.

• Hardy Cathcart : I found the portrait long before I met Mari. And I worshipped it. When I did meet her, it was as if I'd always known her... and wanted her.

  Woman in Gallery : Oh, how romantic.

  Hardy Cathcart : If you prefer to be maudlin about it, perhaps.

• Hardy Cathcart : The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that is neither immoral nor illegal.

• Mrs. Kingsley : Isn't my Turner divine? Look at it! It grows on you.

  Hardy Cathcart : You make it sound like a species of fungus.

• Hardy Cathcart : Lovers of beauty never haggle over price, Tony.

• Hardy Cathcart : Love is not the exclusive province of adolescence, my dear; it's a heart ailment that strikes all age groups-like my love for you. My love for you is the only malady I've contracted since the usual childhood diseases. And it's incurable.

• Hardy Cathcart : Take, uh, Tony for instance. I never imagined him to be interested in... Lucy Wilding.

  Mari Cathcart : But he loathed her! It's not true.

  Hardy Cathcart : He loathed her intimately.

  Mari Cathcart : He couldn't!... she's too old for him!

• Stauffer, alias Fred Foss : It didn't work. It was a busto crusto.

  Hardy Cathcart : [Cathcart is at a total loss as to what this means]  A what?

  Stauffer, alias Fred Foss : A flop.