The Ghoul (1933)
Ralph Richardson: Nigel Hartley
Quotes
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Nigel Hartley : I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.
Broughton : Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?
Aga Ben Dragore : [as the romantic Kaney is making tea for the household] Six cups? That's just... just four too many.
[Grabbing her hand]
Aga Ben Dragore : Eh?
Kaney : Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?
Aga Ben Dragore : [Imperiously folding his arms a la Valentino] I am one!
Kaney : [Shocked] What?
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Nigel Hartley : I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?
Laing : He'll never see the morning.
Nigel Hartley : He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?
Laing : Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.
Nigel Hartley : I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.
Laing : He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.
Nigel Hartley : Still, sometimes at the end...
Laing : Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!
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Nigel Hartley : Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.
Kaney : You think he's run away? Absurd! I'd like to see you riding your bicycle with a Circassian slave, lovely as sin, across the handlebars!