Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Alec Guinness: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry, Lady Agatha

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• The Parson : The port is with you

• The Parson : [Describing his country church]  I always say my West window has all the *exuberance* of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

• [to a poacher caught in a mantrap] 

  The Duke : Hoskins is now going to thrash you; then he'll let you go. Let this be a lesson to you not to poach on my land.

• Louis Mazzini : I want to talk to you for a minute. If you make a noise, I shall blow your head off at once. By the time anyone has heard the shot I shall be running back toward the castle shouting for help. I shall say that you stepped on the trap and your gun went off as you fell. So be quiet.

  Louis Mazzini : [Lights Cigarette] 

  Louis Mazzini : When I've finished I shall kill you. You will be the sixth D'Ascoyne that I've killed. You want to know why? In return for what the D'Acoyne's did to my mother. Because she married for love instead of for rank or money or land. They condemed her to a life of poverty and slavery, in a world for which they had not equipped her to deal. You yourself refused to grant her dying wish, which was to be buried here, at Chalfont. When I saw her poor little coffin slide underground, saw her exiled in death as she had been in life, I swore to have revenge on your intolerable pride. That revenge I am just about to complete.

  The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke : It's clear that you are insane. Give me that gun at once!

  Louis Mazzini : No.

• Ascoyne D'Ascoyne : I have decided to appoint you my private secretary, at a salary of five hundred pounds per annum.

  Louis : Sir, I cannot begin to tha...

  Ascoyne D'Ascoyne : Please do not try.

• The Banker : A tragic loss serves to put lesser matters in their proper perspective.