The Law and the Lady (1951)

Michael Wilding: Nigel Duxbury

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• Nigel Duxbury : You talk like Gladstone and look like Helen of Troy.

  Jane Hoskins : You look like a duke and act like the Artful Dodger.

• Jane Hoskins : I shall find a man worth 10,000 a year and marry him.

  Nigel Duxbury : What about love?

  Jane Hoskins : I have no objection to love as long as he still has the 10,000.

• Jane Hoskins : This would be purely a working arrangement?

  Nigel Duxbury : Oh, incredibly pure.

  Jane Hoskins : Then why the diamonds?

  Nigel Duxbury : Because, without them you are Jane Hoskins, but with them you are Lady Lovely.

• Jane Hoskins : Mr. Duxbury, you are without question the most dishonest, the most immoral, the most unprincipled man I ever met in my life.

  Nigel Duxbury : That would sound more convincing if your hot little fist wasn't stuffed with money. But if it will make you any happier, we can always give it back - your half.

  Jane Hoskins : Let's not be too hasty, Mr. Duxbury. We can think more clearly when we've had a little wine.

• Tracy Collans : Hoskins, place me next to Lady Lovely at supper.

  Nigel Duxbury : [as the butler, Hoskins]  That might be a bit of a problem, sir.

  Tracy Collans : Solve it, Hoskins, and I'll make it worth your while.

  Nigel Duxbury : Bribery, sir?

  Tracy Collans : Yes.

  Nigel Duxbury : I just wanted to make sure.

• Jane Hoskins : You promised that our relationship was going to be incredibly pure.

  Nigel Duxbury : Yes, now it's purely incredible.

• Juan Dinas : [astride a horse]  Is she married?

  Nigel Duxbury : [as the butler, Hoskins]  A widow, sir. She was heartbroken by her husband's death - vowed to never look at another man.

  Juan Dinas : Well, I do not want her to look at another man. I want her to look at Juan Miguel Esteban Dinas Y Martinez - that's me.

  Nigel Duxbury : Well, I suggest you stay where you are, sir. Her ladyship could never resist an attractive horse.

• Jane Hoskins : Nigel, I've been thinking. Couldn't you pinch the silver?

  Nigel Duxbury : Oh, that's a very brilliant idea, indeed. I shall leave the house with one bag and four barrels?

• Jane Hoskins : Oh, Nigel. You know that headache you asked me to have? I've got it already.

  Nigel Duxbury : Now, Jane, don't worry so.

  Jane Hoskins : Up to now, the worst that's happened is that we've been asked to leave town; if something goes wrong this time, we may very well be asked to stay... about20 years.

  Nigel Duxbury : Well, there are bound to be risks. Otherwise, everyone and his dog would be doing it.