Murder Must Advertise (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.2 (1973)
Ian Carmichael: Lord Peter Wimsey
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Quotes
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Dian de Momerie : I love you, Harlequin.
Lord Peter Wimsey : Pity. Your lovers seem to have a knack of coming to a bad end.
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Dian de Momerie : [to Whimsey in his harlequin outfit hiding in a tree] What do you want to behave like an idiot for?
Lord Peter Wimsey : Advertisement chiefly. One must be different. I'm Always different.
Dian de Momerie : It's a cheap way of producing an effect.
Lord Peter Wimsey : It is good enough for gin-soaked minds or such as you. if you will pardon me, subtlety will be wasted.
Dian de Momerie : I wish you'd come down here.
Lord Peter Wimsey : Possibly, but I prefer to be looked up to.
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Dian de Momerie : [to an unseen Wimsey] I hate you!
Lord Peter Wimsey : [Up in a tree in costume] Then you're on the high road to loving me, which is only natural. We needs must love the highest when we see it. Can you see me?
Dian de Momerie : Not very well.
Dian de Momerie : [With a seductive tone] Come down, Harlequin. I wish you to come down. If you came down, I could see you better.
Lord Peter Wimsey : And love me better perhaps?
Dian de Momerie : Perhaps.
Lord Peter Wimsey : Then I'm safer where I am, knowing what happens to your lovers.
Dian de Momerie : Come down, Harlequin, and I'll show you how to get a kick out of life.
[She laughs]
Lord Peter Wimsey : [Jumping off the back of the tree to the ground unseen] Well?
Dian de Momerie : [Somewat seductively] Will I do?
Lord Peter Wimsey : For what?
Dian de Momerie : For you.
Lord Peter Wimsey : And what are you good for me?
Dian de Momerie : I'm beautiful.
Lord Peter Wimsey : Not as beautiful as you were, and in five years time you will be ugly.
Dian de Momerie : I wouldn't want you for five years.
Lord Peter Wimsey : And I wouldn't want you for five minutes.