The Missionary (1982)

Trevor Howard: Lord Henry Ames

Quotes 

• Lord Ames : I once had a chap before me who'd been caught stealing from the mess. I ordered every alternate fingernail to be removed, and you know, I still get a card from him every Christmas.

• Lord Ames : You see, what I think is wrong with the country today is that there aren't enough people chained up.

• [Writing to The Times on how to treat the poor] 

  Lord Ames : Are there two "l"s in "disembowelment"?

• [about Slatterthwaite] 

  Lord Ames : He really is the most disastrous butler. Can't we get rid of him?

  Lady Isabel Ames : Of course we can't. He's been here for 25 years.

  Lord Ames : I don't know why we ever got rid of Marcheson.

  Lady Isabel Ames : You know perfectly well why we got rid of Marcheson.

  Lord Ames : That was only a bit of harmless fun.

  Lady Isabel Ames : Not for the parents.