Lord Cromer Quotes in Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

Lord Cromer: Now what about, forgive me, the foliage?

Laura Henderson: Foliage?

Lord Cromer: You know, beneath the...

Laura Henderson: Beneath what? Try the Brie.

Lord Cromer: Thank you. Beneath the...

Laura Henderson: I had it flown in from France.

Lord Cromer: Excellent. The foliage beneath the...

Laura Henderson: My husband was very fond of it.

Lord Cromer: Of what?

Laura Henderson: This particular cheese.

Lord Cromer: My dear, I'm attempting to address the disagreeable and somewhat sordid topic of the pudendum.

Laura Henderson: What on earth is that?

Lord Cromer: Good heavens, woman!

Laura Henderson: Do have some more wine.

Lord Cromer: The female part.

Laura Henderson: Oh, the pussy!

Lord Cromer: [Gasps]

Laura Henderson: Why didn't you say?

Lord Cromer: I had not expected you, of all people, to use such language.

Laura Henderson: That word was rather popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Not everyone speaks Latin, you know.

Lord Cromer: Then I'd prefer you refer to it as 'the midlands'.

Laura Henderson: Oh dear, you men do get into such a state about 'the midlands', don't you? Well you needn't worry. Our lighting will be so subtle; the disputed area will be barely visible.

[as Lord Cromer drinks his wine]

Laura Henderson: And anyway, we'll have a barber.

Lord Cromer: [spits out wine and Mrs Henderson laughs]

Laura Henderson: Tommy, you're so literal. You're thinking bosoms, but I'm thinking breasts.

Lord Cromer: And what, my dear, is the difference?

Laura Henderson: Ah, the difference is in your soul.

Lord Cromer: I have learned in these many years of dealing with artists to detest imagination.

Lord Cromer: Our intelligence tells me that Germany is going to bomb London.

Laura Henderson: *My* intelligence tells me that.