The Razor's Edge (1946)

Lucile Watson: Louisa Bradley

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• Louisa Bradley : Elliott, who is this man you invited to dinner tonight?

  Elliott Templeton : He's an English author.

  [Referring to W. Somerset Maugham] 

  Elliott Templeton : He's quite alright. In fact he's quite famous. So pretend you've heard of him even if you haven't.

• Elliott Templeton : I'm afraid I haven't a very good account to give you of that young man, Louisa.

  Louisa Bradley : Oh?

  Elliott Templeton : When he first came over to Paris, for Isabel's sake, I asked him to lunch to meet the sort of people he ought to know. He told me he didn't eat lunch.

  Louisa Bradley : Perhaps he doesn't.

  Elliott Templeton : And then, when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred, I will never understand how any young man could come to Paris without evening clothes.

  Louisa Bradley : Maybe he just didn't want to.

  Elliott Templeton : That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.

• Elliott Templeton : [Recounting a series of rejected invitations]  And then when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred I shall never understand how any young man can come to Paris without evening clothes.

  Louisa Bradley : [Referring to the turning down of the invitations]  Maybe he just didn't want to.

  Elliott Templeton : That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.