A Good Woman (2004)

John Standing: Dumby

Quotes 

• Dumby : He's proposing to her. It will be his third time up the aisle.

  Cecil : Hope trumps experience, Dumby. It's God's joke on the human race.

• Dumby : Women inspire us to great things.

  Cecil : Then somehow prevent us from doing any of them.

• Dumby : Bigamy is having more than one wife too many.

  Lord Darlington : So is monogamy.

• Dumby : Do you think she'd look at you if you were poor?

  Tuppy : Do you think I'd look at her if she were ugly? Fair's fair, exchange rates and so forth. Well I know she's had her this and her that... but if a man can tolerate his own past... why not a past in his wife?

• Dumby : One should always have a proper basis for marriage. A mutual...

  Lord Darlington : Misunderstanding?

  Dumby : Exactly.

• Tuppy : I'm going to ask her to marry me if she'll have me.

  Dumby : You know... you know why they call it an altar, Tuppy? It's where they make human sacrifices.