Kitty (1945)

Constance Collier: Lady Susan Dowitt

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• Lady Susan Dowitt : One of the most important accomplishments of the modern young woman is the use of the fan. She does not employ it to cool herself, but rather to express the emotions.

  Sir Hugh Marcy : Women are armed with fans as men are with swords, and frequently do much more damage with them.

• Sir Hugh Marcy : What would you do if you had to choose between the duke and going back to Houndsditch?

  Lady Susan Dowitt : Oh, well, I'd pick the duke. But then, I'm a lady. I've an idea our little guttersnipe is above that sort of thing.

• Duke of Malmunster : Well, am I going to get tea?

  Lady Susan Dowitt : Sir, you're going to get everything you want.

• Sir Hugh Marcy : I think I should be complimented, Thomas.

  Thomas Gainsborough : For what, please?

  Sir Hugh Marcy : For turning a little gutterbag into a duchess - a neat trick.

  Lady Susan Dowitt : The trick was having me around. Kitty could never have passed for a lady without my examples to guide her.

  Thomas Gainsborough : Permit me to remind you that if I hadn't found Kitty in the first place, and painted her portrait, none of this would even have happened. She wouldn't be a duchess and you wouldn't be in the foreign office, my dear.

  Sir Hugh Marcy : I think we should all congratulate each other.