Your Past Is Showing (1957)

Terry-Thomas: Lord Mayley

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• Lord Henry Mayley : I've always considered murder to be rather un-English. I mean, one's got to draw the line somewhere, hasn't one?

• Lord Henry Mayley : How do I look, Lucy?

  Lady Lucy Mayley : Very chick.

  Lord Henry Mayley : Chick? Thought the word was chic.

  Lady Lucy Mayley : Yes, darling, it is; but not when applied to you.

• [MacGregor's false mustache has started coming loose] 

  Lord Henry Mayley : Your mustache...

  Sonny MacGregor : Oh, yes, sir. I... I got the creeping alopecia, sir. Yes, sir, it crept all over my lip, it did. Yes, sir.

• Lord Henry Mayley : Never seen her before. It's a lie.

  Lady Lucy Mayley : What is?

  Lord Henry Mayley : Whatever she says I've done.

• Lord Henry Mayley : I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Mayley, Lord Mayley.

  Rev. Bastable : Oh.

  Lord Henry Mayley : And this is Miss Right.

  Rev. Bastable : Oh, congratulations.

  Lord Henry Mayley : Oh, no, no! That's her name.

• Lord Henry Mayley : Good heavens. Sir Hutton Eastbrook! He's on the board of my directors. He'll have to go. We can't employ disgusting people like that.

• Nigel Dennis : I, myself, am running a modest little magazine in England entitled, "The Naked Truth".

  Lord Henry Mayley : Rather a vulgar title, isn't it?

  Nigel Dennis : Vulgar perhaps, but terribly apt.

• Lord Henry Mayley : Charming of you. I shall thoroughly enjoy reading this. Rather naughty, I believe.

• Lord Henry Mayley : You can't print this. You *can't* print this. It's libel!

  Nigel Dennis : It's the naked truth, oh Lord.

• Lord Henry Mayley : This is England. There *must* be a way.

• Lord Henry Mayley : If it's about me, why is it titled, "Guess Who?"

  Nigel Dennis : Because as British law stands, the public mustn't be able to positively identify you, Lord Mayley, with the naughty hero of this article, here.

  Lord Henry Mayley : Naughty?

• Nigel Dennis : You make a lot of money, don't you?

  Lord Henry Mayley : Yes. My wife spends a lot of money. If there's any left over, I spend it.

• Lord Henry Mayley : You asked me here! Surely you can't have forgotten what happened the other night. You got me out of bed! Well, didn't you?

• Lord Henry Mayley : I couldn't go in the nude, could I? Well, could I?

• Lord Henry Mayley : Save England from the worst scandal since Lady Godiva took up horse riding.