Dennis Barlow Quotes in The Loved One (1965)

Dennis Barlow: They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me you were hung. With red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tongue.

Dennis Barlow: Aimee, wait. Now, my dear girl, don't you realize, it's only been money that's been holding me back?

Aimee Thanatogenous: An American would despise himself for living off his wife.

Dennis Barlow: Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.

Dennis Barlow: They gave me this ticket, so I thought I'd come here. I mean it was either Los Angeles or Calcutta and I thought, what the hell.

Aimee Thanatogenous: And here we have the Falls of Xanadu.

Dennis Barlow: The Falls of Xanadu, funny that Coleridge never mentioned them.

Aimee Thanatogenous: I beg your pardon?

Dennis Barlow: Coleridge, the man who wrote the poem.

Aimee Thanatogenous: I never heard there was a poem. All the names in Whispering Glades were created by the Blessed Reverend.

Dennis Barlow: Which service have you decided on?

Mr. Kenton: Well I dunno.

Dennis Barlow: We can give you Entonement, Empirement, Dissemination, or Eternalization.

Mr. Kenton: I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Dennis Barlow: Well, that would be embalmed, buried, scattered, or burned.

Mr. Kenton: Burned! That's good. Burned.

Dennis Barlow: Would you prefer to keep the ashes at home?

Mr. Kenton: Not at home, pal. Not at home.

Dennis Barlow: Oh yes, every anniversary, a card of remembrance is sent without charge and it reads, "Your little Arthur is thinking of you and wagging his tail in heaven, tonight."