The Lady Eve (1941) · 40 quotes
Tied for 5th most-quoted character in The Lady Eve (1941): in 3 of its 40 quotes
Most scenes with: Muggsy (3)
You know Charles?
Sir Alfred Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about.
He's not backwards. He's a scientist.
Sir Alfred Oh is that what it is? I knew he was, mm... peculiar.
Sir Alfred I'm afraid you've stumbled on the sorrow of Sidwich, the secret of the century. Lady Eve's father, the Earl, married Eve's younger mother in a May-November romance, even a March-December...Into the gulf that separated the unfortunate couple, there was a coachman on the estate, a gay dog, a great hand with the horses and the ladies, need I say more...They called him 'Handsome Harry'.
That's the father of the girl on the boat.
Sir Alfred Of course it is, the father of the other child, after the divorce, of course.
But they looked exactly alike.
Sir Alfred We must close our minds to that fact as it brings up the dreadful and thoroughly unfounded suspicion that we must carry to our tombs, as it is utterly untenable that the coachman, in both instances...need I say more?
Sir Alfred I took the further precaution of telling him the plot of Cecilia, or the Coachman's Daughter, a gaslight melodrama...I filled him full of handsome coachmen, elderly Earls, young wives, and the two little girls who looked exactly alike.
You mean he actually swallowed that?
Sir Alfred Like a wolf. Well, and now that you've got him, what are you gonna do with him?
I'm going to finish what I started, I'm going to dine with him, dance with him, swim with him, laugh at his jokes, canoodle with him and then one day, about six weeks from now...It won't even take six weeks. One day, about two weeks from now, we'll be riding in the hills, past waterfalls and mountain greenery, up and down ravines and around through vine-covered trails, 'til we come to a spot where the scenery will be so gorgeous, it will rise up and smite me on the head like a hammer. And the sunset will be so beautiful I'll have to get off my horse to admire it, and as I stand there against the glory of Mother Nature, my horse will steal up behind me and nuzzle my hair, AND SO WILL CHARLES, THE HEEL.
