The Truth About Women (1957)

Diane Cilento: Ambrosine Viney

Quotes 

• Sir Humphrey Tavistock : And I never saw her again from that day to this.

  Anthony : Now that's the kind of woman I really admire.

  Ambrosine Viney : [on entering the room]  I do hope you're taking about me.

  Sir Humphrey Tavistock : Oh, Ambrosine, so you're back. You, er, know this young man?

  Ambrosine Viney : I've heard a great deal about him in the last five days. How do you do, Lady Tavistock?

  Ambrosine Viney : How do you do?

  Anthony : [to Sir Humphrey]  Did you say "Ambrosine"?

  Sir Humphrey Tavistock : That's right. Oh, erm, I eventually caught up with her and finally she allowed me to marry her.

  [to Ambrosine] 

  Sir Humphrey Tavistock : Did Diana come back with you?

  Ambrosine Viney : Yes.

  Sir Humphrey Tavistock : Where is she?

  Ambrosine Viney : Packing.

  Anthony : Packing?

  Ambrosine Viney : She saw your car outside, and do you know what she said?

  Anthony : What?

  Ambrosine Viney : It's Anthony, bless him. He's come to apologise and to ask me to go back to him.

  Anthony : I never came to do any such thing. I came to have it out with her.

  Ambrosine Viney : You do want her back, don't you?

  Anthony : Well, yes. On my terms.

  Ambrosine Viney : Which are?

  Anthony : Well, I want to be able to come home at night and find my slippers in front of the fire, dinner on the table and Diana waiting to welcome me. I want a wife who's a wife. The truth about women today is that they don't want to be women at at all, they want to be men.

  Ambrosine Viney : Ah, no, no, no, you're quite wrong. They want to be women alright. The fact is they have a different definition of what the word means. To a woman it means a person, an equal partner in the business of life; free to do what is right and best for herself.

  Sir Humphrey Tavistock : I'll tell you the truth about women: it's hell living with them but it's a damn sight worse having to live without them.