Helen Lenoir Quotes in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Helen Lenoir: The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Richard D'Oyly Carte: Who told you that?

Richard Barker: Hollingshead. I played a game of cricket with him this morning before breakfast at Coram's Fields.

Helen Lenoir: In this heat?

Richard Barker: Yes, madam, but not in this attire.

Helen Lenoir: Oh, good.

Sullivan: May I remind you, Helen, that I am not a machine.

Helen Lenoir: I would not suggest for one moment that you were.

Sullivan: You all seem to be treating me as a barrel-organ. You have but to turn my handle, and Hey Presto! Out pops a tune.

Helen Lenoir: [during a heat wave] I fear we shall all have to pray for rain.

Richard Barker: Well, if it's any consolation, every theatre in town is afflicted. Even the Gaiety, graced as it is with Madame Bernhardt's execrable Lady Macbeth.