What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Lucile Watson: La Contessa la Brierre
Quotes
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Charles Venables : I'm sorry not to find him at home. I wanted to talk to him about, about the speech he's preparing on the Gold Standard.
Maggie Wylie : Well, I typewrite his speeches, if there's anything I can tell you.
Charles Venables : I could never think of acquiring information in that way.
La Contessa la Brierre : [scoffs loudly] No, no!
Maggie Wylie : He did say something about- what was that about? About the majority of the party wanting to remain on the Gold Standard.
Charles Venables : Does he realise that it may mean a crash for England if we stick to Gold?
Maggie Wylie : Oh, but in that case the majority would then change their views, wouldn't they?
Charles Venables : The majority will never change.
Maggie Wylie : That would be too bad, wouldn't it?
Charles Venables : In a national crisis, Mrs Shand, men have been known to put their country above their party.
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La Contessa la Brierre : He can't be worthy of you. No man could. Why do you do it?
Maggie Wylie : [as Mrs. John Shand] I'm six years older than he is. I'm plain and I have no charm. I shouldn't have let him marry me. I'm trying to make up for it.
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Lady Sybil Tenterden : Countess, uh, do leave us, won't you?
La Contessa la Brierre : Not I - far too interesting.
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Charles Venables : Countess, it has been marvelous seeing you again - positively marvelous.
La Contessa la Brierre : Thirty years and he hasn't stopped lying.
