A Good Woman (2004)

Stephen Campbell Moore: Lord Darlington

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• Lord Darlington : I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.

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

  Lord Darlington : So is monogamy.

• Cecil : Men advance, women resist. We retreat and they block our escape. We can't win.

  Lord Darlington : The sexes will never understand each other.

  Cecil : Only because they take such pains to deceive each other.

• Lord Darlington : I find the best way to keep my word is never to give it.

• Lord Darlington : All paying jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

  Robert Windemere : You never had a paying job.

  Lord Darlington : I rest my case. Cultivated leisure is man's true calling.

• Alessandra : Now I see uncle. He's with the American woman.

  Contessa Lucchino : Too much rouge and not enough clothing. She's appealing to the worst in the poor man.

  Lord Darlington : It's what women do best.

• Lord Darlington : Gossip is alright. It's the moralizing that is in poor taste.

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

  Lord Darlington : Misunderstanding?

  Dumby : Exactly.

• Lord Darlington : All of which, mind you, is time well spent in my book. So, yes, I take your point, I can't argue. At the club, we'd be with other people. Afraid we'll be seen? Set the chins wagging? Do you know what I find worse than being talked about? Not being talked about at all.

• Lord Darlington : Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people, Tuppy. Sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load.

• Lord Darlington : I've thought very seriously of marrying. That's why I'm still single.

• Lord Darlington : I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.

  Tuppy : A tribute to American efficiency.