Lady Marguerite Blakeney Quotes in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Oh but Percy, through me, a good, a generous man my lose his life. Oh Percy, what can I do? How can I warn him?

Percy Blakeney: Warn him? Against what?

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Against the danger if he goes back to France.

Percy Blakeney: Well, if he's the kind of lunatic I take him to be, your warning's not going to stop him.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: But he might be going to his death.

Percy Blakeney: That's all the fellow lives for. Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: I'm not in love with him! I admire his head of wisdom, but I'm not in love with him.

Percy Blakeney: Oh, but you are. It's a dangerous game, my dear. Falling in love with a phantom. For all you know, he might be a married man who is deeply in love with his wife.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can't you rise above trivialities for once?

Percy Blakeney: Can't rise above anything more than three syllables, my dear - never could.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can you honestly deny that you've changed?