Design for Murder (1939)

Barbara Everest: Ursula

Quotes 

• Bentley : This is extremely inconvenient.

  Ursula : Accidents are, aren't they?

  Bentley : I particularly wanted to be alone this evening. I've some very urgent work to do.

  Ursula : Now, don't be a donkey Mr Bentley. There's a girl in pain, can't walk. No car, no comfortable hotel for miles around.

• Ursula : Goodnight Dan - thanks so much for your help.

  Old Dan : Oh, you're welcome ma'am. Here's your health, and a smart recovery to the little lady.

  Bentley : Dan - you've drunk my whisky!

  Old Dan : Have I, sir? No, I... I believe I have. Now ain't that rich!

  Bentley : Fool!

  Old Dan : That's what my missis'll call me when she hears. She won't 'alf cackle!

• Huey Frazer : Has he gone?

  Ursula : Yes, thank goodness. I certainly didn't want to be left alone with him.

  Huey Frazer : I don't blame you. He gives me the creeps. What is he, a dipsomaniac or something?

  Ursula : No, no, it's something else. He's almost shell-shocked. A tragic young man.

• [last lines] 

  Ursula : He's going to be alright.

• Bentley : I've never had any sort of friendship. Even as a child, I had to turn inwards. And that, I suppose, was bad for me. I only had my own dark thoughts submerging me, mastering me. But when that happens, the body degenerates, the spirit coarsens.

  Ursula : And what do you think starts it all?

  Bentley : Cruelty.