Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Joan Greenwood: Sibella

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• 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.

• Sibella : He says he wants to go to Europe to expand his mind.

  Louis Mazzini : He certainly has room to do so.

• 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 adorable. 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.

• Sibella : I've married the dullest man in London.

  Louis Mazzini : In England!

  Sibella : In Europe!

• Sibella : [during an illicit rendezvous]  What am I doing?

  Louis Mazzini : You know very well. You're playing with fire.

  Sibella : At least it warms me.

• Sibella : Lionel will be very rich one day.

  Louis Mazzini : I might be a duke one day.

  Sibella : Pigs might fly.

  Louis Mazzini : No, I might. Really I might. You see, Mama was the daughter...

  Sibella : [yawning]  Oh yes, I know. Well, when you are a duke, you just come and show me your... crown, or whatever it's called, and then I'll feel awfully silly won't I?

• Louis Mazzini : I considered it both seemly and touching that my dear wife should visit me as she did this morning, to make her farewells. Your arrival on the other hand, appears to me unseemly and tasteless in the extreme.

  Sibella : I couldn't bear my last sight of you to be that look of hatred you gave me as you went out from the trial

  Louis Mazzini : In view of the fact that your evidence had put the rope around my neck, you could hardly expect a glance of warm affection.

• Sibella : Oh, the Italian men are so handsome... but I could never get away from Lionel for a moment. But, I was forgetting... you're Italian.

  Louis Mazzini : Half.

• Sibella : All of your cousins seem to get killed. I really wouldn't be the least surprised if you murdered them all.

• Louis Mazzini : No, I forgot. You're pledged to Lionel. I behaved like a cad that night.

  Sibella : I liked you when you behaved like a cad.

• Louis Mazzini : You can't marry Lionel. He's a clod, not a gentleman.

  Sibella : Listen to who's talking? Whoever heard of a gentleman blacking the lodgers' boots?

  Louis Mazzini : That's a wicked thing to say! Just because Mama was poor!