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Quotes from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

27 quotes
Dennis Price
Sibella: [sobs] Oh Louis! I don't want to marry Lionel!
Louis Mazzini: Why not?
Sibella: He's so dull.
Louis Mazzini: I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
- Dennis Price (as Louis Mazzini) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Joan Greenwood
Sibella: All of your cousins seem to get killed. I really wouldn't be the least surprised if you murdered them all.
- Joan Greenwood (as Sibella Holland) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Dennis Price
Sibella: He says he wants to go to Europe to expand his mind.
Louis Mazzini: He certainly has room to do so.
- Dennis Price (as Louis Mazzini) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Joan Greenwood
Sibella: I've married the dullest man in London.
Louis Mazzini: In England!
Sibella: In Europe!
- Joan Greenwood (as Sibella Holland) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Dennis Price
Sibella: Oh, the Italian men are so handsome... but I could never get away from Lionel for a moment.
Sibella: But, I was forgetting... you're Italian.
Louis Mazzini: Half.
- Dennis Price (as Louis Mazzini) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Joan Greenwood
Sibella: What would you say if she asked you about me?
Louis Mazzini: I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were... Sibella.
Sibella: What a pretty speech.
Louis Mazzini: I mean it.
Sibella: [seductively] Come and say it to me again.
- Joan Greenwood (as Sibella Holland) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Alec Guinness
The Banker: A tragic loss serves to put lesser matters in their proper perspective.
- Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Alec Guinness
The Hangman: A difficult client can make things most distressing. Some of them tend to be very hysterical - so inconsiderate.
- Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Alec Guinness
The Parson: [Describing his country church] I always say my West window has all the *exuberance* of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.
- Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Alec Guinness
The Parson: The port is with you
- Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)