Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Valerie Hobson: Edith

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• Edith : Was Lord Tennyson far from the mark when he wrote, "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood?"

• Edith : [while Henry, her husband, has been murdered by explosion and smoke started coming up from wall behind her]  I hoped that perhaps he would interest himself in the welfare of our tenantry, as I do. But he became interested in photography on our honeymoon and since then it has become the major preoccupation of his life... Mr Mazzini...

  Louis Mazzini : Yes?

  Edith : I hope you will forgive my speaking to you on a personal matter, but it worries me that Henry should spend so much time on his hobby that he has little left for any more useful activity. Am I right to let him go on like this?

  Louis Mazzini : [Voiceover]  I could hardly point out that Henry now had no time left for any kind of activity, so I continued to discuss his future.

  Louis Mazzini : He has never shown any wish for a career in politics?

• Edith : But I have often felt that the attitude of my husband's family has failed to move with the times. That they think too much of the rights of the nobility and too little of its duties. The very honesty of your behavior would appear to me to prove them wrong.