Beau Brummel (1924)

John Barrymore: George Bryon 'Beau' Brummel

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Quotes 

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : Your wife has just been kissed - she has never been kissed by a gentleman before.

  Snodgrass - the Innkeeper : Did my wife have the honor, sir, of being insulted by you - - or the Prince of Wales?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : You can say anything you like about the Prince - but be careful of my reputation.

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : My heart is all I have to offer - and that I lay in the hollow of your little hand.

• Prince of Wales : By George! You're a better beau than I am - George!

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : By George! I believe I am - George!

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I should like to ask Your Royal Highness' permission to resign from the Army?

  Prince of Wales : Have you no wish to serve your country?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : Not in Manchester, sir.

• Prince of Wales : Will you arrange a little supper for tonight, George, and invite some friends of the female persuasion - say at eight?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : Make it eight-thirty.

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : My dear Lady Hester, will you do me the honor to marry me when you are free?

  [Lady Hester leans in to embrace Beau] 

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : But - if you accept me - I shall hate you like the devil! A divorce and remarriage would hurt my position at court.

  Lady Hester Stanhope : What do we care for scandal? You do love me!

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I love you more in this moment than ever before - - when I tell you that I have never loved you at all.

  Lady Hester Stanhope : Fool! Do you think I care about anything but my own position at court?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : Thank you. You have saved me from doing something commonplace.

• Frederica Charlotte - Duchess of York : Mr. Brummel, you are wasting yourself. You have the qualities of a great leader, yet you choose to play the part of court jester.

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I am a nobody without rank or fortune. I attract attention by insolence and hold it by scandal.

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : Things would have been different, Your Royal Highness, had I known the tenderness of a real woman. A woman to sit beside my fire, to move among my things - to bless them with her touch. A woman like Your Royal Highness!

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : You must listen to me - I have loved but one woman in my life. I loved you then - I love you now - I'll love you always!

  Lady Margery Alvanley : But - Lady Hester?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I was lonely - she was amusing.

  Lady Margery Alvanley : And - the Duchess?

  Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I was lonely - she was kind.

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : I shall be quite fashionable in Calais - spending my time *between* London and Paris.

• Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel : [Final lines]  Were it the last drop in the cup of life, I would pause to drink - to you.