Kind Hearts and Coronets

"The D’Ascoynes certainly appeared to have accorded with the tradition of the landed gentry and sent the fool of the family into the Church"

"[Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne has been killed while sailing a hot-air balloon over London.] I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square."

"While I never admired Edith as much as when I was with Sibella, I never longed for Sibella as much as when I was with Edith."

"The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those newfangled parsons who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life."

"It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms."

"The next morning I went out shooting with Ethelred—or rather, to watch Ethelred shooting; for my principles will not allow me to take a direct part in blood sports."

"I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period."

"Dennis Price — Louis Mazzini"

"Alec Guinness — The D'Ascoynes"

"Joan Greenwood — Sibella Holland"

"Miles Malleson — Mr. Elliot The Hangman"